I've worked in IT my entire adult life and I have fucking acronyms.
I work in broadcasting, only thing that sprints to mind is "video apparatus room", but that's an archaic term from the pre ip days when signals were analog and sound was in sync.
It kinda puzzles me how the death of four Americans causes more global mourning and distress than the death of thousands somewhere else.
It puzzles me how the deaths of 4 Americans causes so much media cover than the deaths of 100 Americans killed EVERY DAY on the road.
For some reason the 4 people killed this week in Boston has been latched on by the media as a rolling news event. The Waco fire wasn't.
If Obama had resigned this week, people would not be outraged about a fairly small murder in Boston. Other multiple homicides this month haven't receieved national coverage, let alone 24/7 international coverage.
What happen if this "bomber" were found not guilty?
Doesn't matter. He's guilty of something, the media have their man, the public at happy and will give the gladitorial thumbs up/down signal.
I haven't watched any of the media circus, I know that sky and the bbc have been over it like a porno from a few glances in airport lounges and twitter. I understand that u.s. media is even worse.
I'm shocked at how easily the media has swung this. A bloke that's killed user half a dozen people.
Seriously, they were throwing bombs at the police, on top of the gunfire, during the pursuit if the news is right on that count. That's clearly grounds for giving up your rights to a nonviolent arrest - you're actively trying to kill people!
And once subdued he gets an attorney, a fair trial, and a right to be presumed innocent until proven beyond all reasonable doubt he is guilty.
If the evidence is as overwhelming as the lynch mobs on here say, he will be found guilty and sentenced to an appropriate punishment that is neither cruel or unusual.
This is how civilisation works, it's not lord of the flies.
People, you can't even call it "murder" at this fucking point and you GODDAMN RETARDS are blaming all sorts of people on it for no reason than you're idiots.
It's not a joking matter. If you're joking, you're not funny, you're assholes. Grow up.
I'm assuming he's talking about the criminal actions in Boston. There's enough evidence there that it was an explosive device rather than a gas main or similar, thus the deaths in boston are murders.
Now I never really understood the finer points of english, however I agree with the OPs sentiment, terrorism is "to do something to instill terror". It's not a verb, it's an adverb.
"The washington sniper was a terrorist. His murders were clearly terrorism."
There's no reason to assume the whole vehicle isn't mirrored.
If they were then, at the typical international airport, you'd notice the large ring of car wrecks around the rental garage. Moving the steering wheel is a helpful hint to remind you to drive on the other side of the road. Swapping the brake and accelerator pedals would be a recipe for unpleasantness.
It's bad enough at U.S. Airports as people struggle to drive away without a gearstick, handbrakes located where the engine-opener is, etc.
Whether cell towers were working or not is a stupid thing to focus on, here. How about the coming absolute surrender of all remaining liberties? Since 9-11, I've repeatedly pointed out that all we need is one more big terrorist event to shake the population enough that we will give up everything. Complaits about the TSA, second amendment, privacy, government and corporate wiretapping without justification. All of it. It is over. We lose.by attacking us, we shell up. We take away our own freedomFOR them. It is time to shutter yro.slashdot, because it no longer matters.
Has it actually been confirmed that this was actually a criminal event? There's too much speculation in the "news". I tuned out after one channel were saying "so they set off this bomb here, then people ran in this direction (drawing on screen like a football game), then the second bomb went off here, trapping them"
There was 5 seconds between the blasts, and a video showing exactly what happened.
As usual the news are bullshitting away to keep people tuned in.
Which is why charges of ANYTHING for text/sms should be fraud! Cellular would not work without this data stream, they act as if they are providing you with a service.
Ah, the rush to misreport. This is why I wait a week to read about what happened. News outlets, and law enforcement officials, will just make stuff up because it's too early to know what really happened. Enjoy your speculation!
Facts: There were 2 explosions near the finish of the Boston Marathon yesterday. 3 people have died. Opinion: Everything else on the news for the last 24 hours.
* Media spouts a load of crap to get ratings * News at 11
Oh wait, not news at 11, it's news all the time. Doesn't matter that there's nothing new to report, that it's all over, that it will takes days to get any more answer, we have to have wallpaper news because all the other stations are having it. Everyone's hoping for another 9/11.
Oh how I wish for a return to a half hour news bulletin 3 times a day, when journalists had time to go out and find what's going on rather than sit in a studio doing two-ways, reading wires and copy that's come from the studio.
That's enough from me standing outside an empty office block, back to you in the studio. I'll be here again in 15 minutes though for an update.
Indeed. Jihadists would have put the second device in the rubble of the first, made the delay closer to 5 minutes than 20 seconds, and would have made it much larger. This is clearly by someone too concerned with his own safety to do it "right". Thank heavens.
You're describing the u.s funded ira
I think if you drew up a list of possible terrorist groups likely to target Boston, the IRA or any of its variants would be pretty near the bottom.
Indeed, they preferred to blow up towns like Warrington. Same M.O. Blow up one bomb, kids run away from it, straight into the path of another one a few minutes later. All funded by the good people of Boston and New York.
"Jihadists" tend to be too thick to cause much of a problem. Look at the shoe bomber -- if he'd have gone to the toilet, or even booked himself in F, he'd have gotten away with it.
Just because we're like minded, doesn't mean we agree.
On the whole we're interested in things like computers, robotics, science and technology in general, scifi etc. We're not (on the whole) interested in sports, soaps, or reality tv.
Here, are you serious? People skip right over the deaths to complain about their possible future loss of rights. I guess that's easy to complain about in a basement away from risk.
I travel all over the world, hardly a week goes by without being on a flight somewhere and staying in a hotel somewhere. From Islamabad to Gaza, from Boston to Mumbai.
I was in Joburg last week, a colleague survived an attempted carjacking leaving the office when I was there. He had a gun held to his head and the trigger was pulled. Fortunately the gun jammed and he got away.
Later the police found 3 casings and the bullet -- it had been struck, but didn't go off. One lucky guy.
I'm hardly hiding away in my basement, however I'm far more concerned about the erosion of rights than on any improvement "safety" that comes from events like this. Shit happens. If I had been in Boston this week, I'd be more likely to be run over than blown up.
Indeed. Jihadists would have put the second device in the rubble of the first, made the delay closer to 5 minutes than 20 seconds, and would have made it much larger. This is clearly by someone too concerned with his own safety to do it "right". Thank heavens.
Why is this on a tech news site? I come here for the news that I can't get on CNN, not for the general interest stuff that I can. Please, slashdot, please, return to your tech roots. It's what brought us here in the first place.
Slashdot isn't a tech news site. It's a nerd discussion site, where like minded nerds can talk about things that interest them.
Slashdot Mirror
$31.205M, on a green card. Several in the $12M range.
How fortunate it's $31,205,000. Imagine if it was only $31,200,000?! How could you cope at the end of the month?
I've worked in IT my entire adult life and I have fucking acronyms.
I work in broadcasting, only thing that sprints to mind is "video apparatus room", but that's an archaic term from the pre ip days when signals were analog and sound was in sync.
"Created" really was a wrong term compared with "elevated" or "break wide open" as you said.
Like saying al gore "created" the Internet :)
Apple and google are the two major players in the industry since 2000. 1985-2000 was Microsoft and intel.
Be interesting to see who runs 2015-2030.
What the fuck is XBMC?
TFS was terrible.
XBMC = Xbox Media Center, a home theater PC platform originally written for the X-Box, but now very cross-platform.
jms = J. Michael Straczynski, creater of Babalon 5, plus a bunch of really crappy spinoffs.
RMS = some smelly hippie.
HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer
DRM = an important factor in the popularity of p2p media distribution.
It's a sad day when slashdot readers need those explained.
"The big Hollywood movies regularly earn more money internationally than in the US."
So why are there so many baseball and golf movies? Don't they need the money?
I wayched a golm on a plane last wrek (seriously limited selection)
Rise of the guardians made 303 million on a budget of 145.
However this is apparently an 83 million loss.
It kinda puzzles me how the death of four Americans causes more global mourning and distress than the death of thousands somewhere else.
It puzzles me how the deaths of 4 Americans causes so much media cover than the deaths of 100 Americans killed EVERY DAY on the road.
For some reason the 4 people killed this week in Boston has been latched on by the media as a rolling news event. The Waco fire wasn't.
If Obama had resigned this week, people would not be outraged about a fairly small murder in Boston. Other multiple homicides this month haven't receieved national coverage, let alone 24/7 international coverage.
What happen if this "bomber" were found not guilty?
Doesn't matter. He's guilty of something, the media have their man, the public at happy and will give the gladitorial thumbs up/down signal.
I haven't watched any of the media circus, I know that sky and the bbc have been over it like a porno from a few glances in airport lounges and twitter. I understand that u.s. media is even worse.
I'm shocked at how easily the media has swung this. A bloke that's killed user half a dozen people.
Seriously, they were throwing bombs at the police, on top of the gunfire, during the pursuit if the news is right on that count. That's clearly grounds for giving up your rights to a nonviolent arrest - you're actively trying to kill people!
And once subdued he gets an attorney, a fair trial, and a right to be presumed innocent until proven beyond all reasonable doubt he is guilty.
If the evidence is as overwhelming as the lynch mobs on here say, he will be found guilty and sentenced to an appropriate punishment that is neither cruel or unusual.
This is how civilisation works, it's not lord of the flies.
They disperse LSD as a fine mist into the theater and then you start smelling the colors on the screen.
LSD takes 90 minutes to kick in. I realize it was a joke, but... still.
They do it before the adverts
How about a simple, stupid fucking accident, hm?
People, you can't even call it "murder" at this fucking point and you GODDAMN RETARDS are blaming all sorts of people on it for no reason than you're idiots.
It's not a joking matter. If you're joking, you're not funny, you're assholes. Grow up.
I'm assuming he's talking about the criminal actions in Boston. There's enough evidence there that it was an explosive device rather than a gas main or similar, thus the deaths in boston are murders.
Now I never really understood the finer points of english, however I agree with the OPs sentiment, terrorism is "to do something to instill terror". It's not a verb, it's an adverb.
"The washington sniper was a terrorist. His murders were clearly terrorism."
Washington sniper -- noun
terrorist -- adjective
murders -- verb
terrorism -- adverb
"The 9/11 terrorists flew a plane into the building as an act of terrorism."
hijackers (hidden word after 9/11) -- noun
terrorists -- adjective
flew a plane into the building -- verb
act of terrorism -- adverb
"The TSA goons gropes small children to instill fear and obedience, which itself is terrorism"
TSA goons -- noun
grope small children -- verb
instill fear and obedience -- verb
terrorism (adverb, linking to first verb)
Every day on the calendar is an anniversary of something.
Feb 29th has fewer anniversaries than normal though
Which has what to do with a chemical plant 40 miles away...? Exactly...?
The fertilizer plant and the OP are both full of shit?
Don't you mean "RedundAAncy?"
It's a sAAd day for AA.
It's AA sAAd dAAy for AA
I hope you get modded 'redundant' to complete the joke.
That was the idea, but you can never rely on mods
There's no reason to assume the whole vehicle isn't mirrored.
If they were then, at the typical international airport, you'd notice the large ring of car wrecks around the rental garage. Moving the steering wheel is a helpful hint to remind you to drive on the other side of the road. Swapping the brake and accelerator pedals would be a recipe for unpleasantness.
It's bad enough at U.S. Airports as people struggle to drive away without a gearstick, handbrakes located where the engine-opener is, etc.
> There's nothing wrong with Slashdot posting the story,
Except that it literally doesn't matter. 7k ppl die in US highway accidents daily.
Wow, 2.5 million people die in us highway accidents a year? That's about 1 in 140 people per year. Ouch.
In the uk it's 1 in 20000 a year.
Don't you mean "RedundAAncy?"
It's a sAAd day for AA.
It's AA sAAd dAAy for AA
Whether cell towers were working or not is a stupid thing to focus on, here. How about the coming absolute surrender of all remaining liberties? Since 9-11, I've repeatedly pointed out that all we need is one more big terrorist event to shake the population enough that we will give up everything. Complaits about the TSA, second amendment, privacy, government and corporate wiretapping without justification. All of it. It is over. We lose.by attacking us, we shell up. We take away our own freedomFOR them. It is time to shutter yro.slashdot, because it no longer matters.
Has it actually been confirmed that this was actually a criminal event? There's too much speculation in the "news". I tuned out after one channel were saying "so they set off this bomb here, then people ran in this direction (drawing on screen like a football game), then the second bomb went off here, trapping them"
There was 5 seconds between the blasts, and a video showing exactly what happened.
As usual the news are bullshitting away to keep people tuned in.
Which is why charges of ANYTHING for text/sms should be fraud! Cellular would not work without this data stream, they act as if they are providing you with a service.
Don't like it? Don't use it.
Ah, the rush to misreport. This is why I wait a week to read about what happened. News outlets, and law enforcement officials, will just make stuff up because it's too early to know what really happened. Enjoy your speculation!
Facts: There were 2 explosions near the finish of the Boston Marathon yesterday. 3 people have died.
Opinion: Everything else on the news for the last 24 hours.
* Media spouts a load of crap to get ratings
* News at 11
Oh wait, not news at 11, it's news all the time. Doesn't matter that there's nothing new to report, that it's all over, that it will takes days to get any more answer, we have to have wallpaper news because all the other stations are having it. Everyone's hoping for another 9/11.
Oh how I wish for a return to a half hour news bulletin 3 times a day, when journalists had time to go out and find what's going on rather than sit in a studio doing two-ways, reading wires and copy that's come from the studio.
That's enough from me standing outside an empty office block, back to you in the studio. I'll be here again in 15 minutes though for an update.
This is also doesn't feel like Jihadists...
Indeed. Jihadists would have put the second device in the rubble of the first, made the delay closer to 5 minutes than 20 seconds, and would have made it much larger. This is clearly by someone too concerned with his own safety to do it "right". Thank heavens.
You're describing the u.s funded ira
I think if you drew up a list of possible terrorist groups likely to target Boston, the IRA or any of its variants would be pretty near the bottom.
Indeed, they preferred to blow up towns like Warrington. Same M.O. Blow up one bomb, kids run away from it, straight into the path of another one a few minutes later. All funded by the good people of Boston and New York.
"Jihadists" tend to be too thick to cause much of a problem. Look at the shoe bomber -- if he'd have gone to the toilet, or even booked himself in F, he'd have gotten away with it.
Just because we're like minded, doesn't mean we agree.
On the whole we're interested in things like computers, robotics, science and technology in general, scifi etc. We're not (on the whole) interested in sports, soaps, or reality tv.
sense of decency
Here, are you serious? People skip right over the deaths to complain about their possible future loss of rights.
I guess that's easy to complain about in a basement away from risk.
I travel all over the world, hardly a week goes by without being on a flight somewhere and staying in a hotel somewhere. From Islamabad to Gaza, from Boston to Mumbai.
I was in Joburg last week, a colleague survived an attempted carjacking leaving the office when I was there. He had a gun held to his head and the trigger was pulled. Fortunately the gun jammed and he got away.
Later the police found 3 casings and the bullet -- it had been struck, but didn't go off. One lucky guy.
I'm hardly hiding away in my basement, however I'm far more concerned about the erosion of rights than on any improvement "safety" that comes from events like this. Shit happens. If I had been in Boston this week, I'd be more likely to be run over than blown up.
This is also doesn't feel like Jihadists...
Indeed. Jihadists would have put the second device in the rubble of the first, made the delay closer to 5 minutes than 20 seconds, and would have made it much larger. This is clearly by someone too concerned with his own safety to do it "right". Thank heavens.
You're describing the u.s funded ira
Why is this on a tech news site? I come here for the news that I can't get on CNN, not for the general interest stuff that I can. Please, slashdot, please, return to your tech roots. It's what brought us here in the first place.
Slashdot isn't a tech news site. It's a nerd discussion site, where like minded nerds can talk about things that interest them.
Slashdot hasn't broken news for over a decade.