From what I can tell, the latest attempt to destroy/., and it's working. Mods and others browse @ Score:0 or lower to keep a watch for abuses, and this constant spam is really getting annoying. Especially when a simple fix, like disable Anonymous first-posting, would slow it down.
Indeed. I'm just going to do the usual (I'm in a hurry):
1.) This assumes that there are no legitimate usages of Tor. Nice to see Western countries are still holding the torch for freedom, liberty, and all that jazz; the people in various countries with tighter freedom of speech laws thank you for making it easier for their Thought Police to track them down and kill them.
2.) Common carrier / safe harbor clauses / legality fun. Start blocking traffic...legal issues. Plus your customers aren't paying you to monitor their shit, they're paying you to provide a pipe. If you're watching their data, reading their emails, taking note of the websites they're visiting...well, that's a new level of creepy. And unwelcome.
3.) Will not stop / deter illegal activities and / or Tor. Give it a rest guys...you've been fighting and losing non-stop for years. ISPs start blocking Tor, Tor implements some slight changes, hey look, Tor is back! You've solved nothing. And with or without Tor, illegal stuff is going to go on...and the vast majority of it is being done without Tor. The reality is that this focus on Tor is simply a diversion, a chance to talk about something 'safe,' because you can't do anything about the stuff that actually needs changing.
Not going to happen. The likelihood of Congress passing up a chance to extend a tax is about the same as them passing up a chance to let themselves off the hook for insider trading. Which was cute, by the way...amazing the lack of debate, and pure speed with which that bill was apparently passed into law.
Dude, give up while you still can. Grandparent has 'buy local' religion...you're essentially trying to convince the same kind of person who believes that vaccines cause autism that they might be wrong about something...
Well, there's a reason for that. MS has this weird idea of taking the fight to other guy on their turf...no matter how expensive it is.
Case in point: Netscape got its ass handed to it when MS took it on. Why? Because MS owned the last mile, and could afford to give away a browser for free. That hurt Netscape. Then Netscape starts loses control on the server side of things. Boom. How did MS win? By having Netscape fight on MS's turf: Windows.
Case in point: MS wants to replace Google with Bing, Firefox / Chrome with IE. Their solution? Let's move Office and everything to the web, so Google (which lives on the web, and counts it as its home turf) has MS right where it wants it. A smarter strategy would be to leverage local machine resources to do things that can't be offloaded to Clouds / servers over the internet, and punish Google in the process.
Seriously. MS trades a local CPU with multiple cores at multi-Ghz speeds, gobs of RAM, possibly a SSD, and more than likely a half-decent GPU for...well, a fast connection in the US (FIOS) on average might be 50 Mbps...to some tethered servers which are probably running low-power CPUs and lack GPUs...don't have SSDs...might have a lot of RAM...and more than likely, much higher latency. It's like going to Mars for a cup of water...got plenty of it here on Earth.
Actually, given how the Tech Sector has been run over the past few years...are we being punked? We are being punked, aren't we?
Dude, have you taken a look at Dell's website lately? I can't tell if it's the browsers I'm using + extensions or what, but their 'customize' PC options do not allow any actual customization. It's all pre-fab, default configuration stuff, from what I can tell, and last year's technology to boot. It honestly looks like they fired all of their developers and IT staff, then hired someone with WordPress knowledge to run the site...which is super-bad for a company that wants to bill itself as must have IT. The current Dell is, from all appearance, kind of the direct opposite of the Dell that was the darling of Wall St. That Dell was heavily ladened in actual techs, with real technology, and a website with real options, and the latest must-have hardware. The current one is...yuck, just a retail / sales outfit, farting out old tech, forced to run constant sales / promotions to move inventory (which for a company that pioneered Just-In-Time Inventory, wow), and thinks that the handful of IT that haven't lost their jobs yet and still have some purchasing power are suddenly going to waste it on hideous cost overruns with inadequate hardware. It's just waaaaaaaaay too expensive for even the trivial stuff, and is a sign that the company is in bad health.
As for Windows 8, it appears MS has finally gotten the message. The latest builds of Windows 8.2? something like that have what appears to be the Start button reappearing in Windows. I imagine that shortly after MS gets the other memo (make Metro apps minimize-able, or just buy StarDock and be done with it), we can begin giving Windows 8 some serious consideration. But I still want to see their IT people take the Cat O'Nine Tails to their Marketing staff for the complete pants downer they've been putting everyone through.
As for the PC market writ large...OEMs have been digging their own graves. They refuse to spec in Sold State Drives as standard devices, then wonder why people prefer the zippy Android Tablets with their Flash / SSD-based storage, to the laptops with their clunky mechanical hard drives....which are made worse by OEMs speccing tiny amounts of memory (RAM), and VAL-U hard drives ("Why sure George, 5400 RPM HDs are just as good as 7200 RPM HDs...don't listen to lightknight...what does he know?"). It's Windows guys...it's a BIG OS...and it's not the only one...linux with flair can get kind of hefty as well...so give it the resources it needs to perform well. The people at the bottom of the food chain haven't noticed any improvements over these past few years because a VAL-U PC from 4 years ago is about as fast as a VAL-U PC from today...because the bottleneck is the f*cking 5400 RPM HD. Doesn't matter how many cores that processor has, or how many pixel shaders that GPU has, if the game is still loading from a slow ass HD.
You'll get a boom when an OEM figures out that a decent sized SSD (none of this 64GB SSD BS) is what the customer NEEDs, not what they want. Because the masses can't tell one computer from another...save the price, and that they want one that looks fast; however, when they are actually trying it out, or borrowing someone else's machine, they can tell.
So, let it become a game of keeping both parties out of power, and quietly disassembling the cartel on political power they managed to put together. Some people like to fish, some people like to play video games, others like to find more favorable odds with the local bookie over which politico is next to fall (and make some sweet dosh on the process).
So...their idea of dealing with a need for more homegrown STEM candidates (haha, try raising the salary offers a little) is to shoot a nuclear torpedo into their home country's universities' STEM programs? Increasing supply tapers off demand...duh! That's like basic economics...it'll perma-fuck anything at home...it takes like a decade to establish a CS / SE program, let alone the other kinds...less kids attending those programs because of dropping salaries (this includes kids who drop out of the program or switch out)...means less funding going back into the program...means cutbacks. So, I guess this means that in the future, STEMs will come from abroad...and US kids will major in liberal arts, business, arts...yup, this country is going to get 0wned. The next US generation will be hocking the latest diet water craze while the kids of other countries are exploring Mars...
Actually, I'm quite enjoying this, in a sad, almost sadistic / sarcastic kind of way. For the past few months, I've been inundated on Facebook and other sites by people with extremely poor logic skills or life experiences attempting to explain to me why limiting high capacity magazines (or even outright banning guns) would have a sudden and long-lasting effect on violence / deaths. No amount of careful reasoning about the myriad of ways that a human being can easily die seemed to penetrate the cloak of their minds, and one of my finer points that if you ban guns, people may resort to homemade bombs / other types of weapons that may prove more deadly than the original weapons.
Now, if someone had killed / injured people today at this marathon with a firearm, the press would be running headlines like "the Boston Massacre" and various politicians would be scrambling to be seen signing gun control legislation. But since it appears, for the moment, to have been an explosive device, they are curiously silent. I find it even more troubling that these people seem unaware of how simple it is to construct such dangerous devices from various household items...they liken it to magic, when reality speaks to simple chemistry. I say this, as I live in an area where farmers have, in times past, used substances such as thermite (actually not an explosive), as well as possibly others, for dealing with gopher holes and the like. These are farmers, who may or may not have set foot inside a university chemistry lab, which says nothing of the trouble the US armed forces have encountered on the other side of the world with IEDs.
Sure, you start paying us like doctors, lawyers, and so on, and we'll talk about liability. But the reality is, the software industry would implode with the requirement for liability insurance, as the stuff we work on is far too complicated for even the brightest of programmers, and the pay is often times way too low. You want to sue a PHP programmer making $40K / year because some el cheapo company hired him / her to bang out a site with no lead time and zero patience? Good luck with that.
Although I'd love to see it happen some days, as it would throw 99% of the programmers out of the industry, and drive the wages up to something unthinkable, with triple iron-clad indemnity agreements and waiting lists for a programmer's time that, let's be honest, would be beautiful payback for some of the bullsh*t that has been pumped through the tech sector this last decade. It would also destroy what's left of the tech industry, but then, I can see vultures in the air overhead, and wonder if it's not already too late.
In short, fix the wages / salaries of programmers, and quit dicking around / playing games. If you think outsourcing companies are going to jump on the idea of legal liability for the code they produce, think again: they know what will happen, and will fold. You can pay us to work, and we will work; or you can pretend to pay us, and we will pretend to work. *shrugs*
Fuck that. I think a series of lenses, mirrors, and prisms might be slightly more useful...why reflect when you can redirect?
"Is he pointing a giant convex lens at us? And that looks like a prism....and another prism....and other giant convex lens... Shut the laser down, shut the laser down now!"
To be there when the a Navy ship is sliced in half by its own laser...
And anyone who has been alive for the past decade is aware that if some group of people hijack your plane, you're better off rushing them, than waiting for a 'successful negotiation.' The problem kind of fixed itself day two of the crisis...
Hmm. Squirt a little of each bottle into a clear plastic cup. If one of the travelers starts cringing or crying, then take a step back, and drop a slightly lesser amount than one would normally.
You could even employ two extra people per line, aptly named "Bottle Squeezers," thus increasing the populous jobs programs that is the TSA.
Of course, terrorists could get tricky, and try and split up the explosives, so one carries one component through, and another carries the other, and they both meet up on the same flight. But then, there are, in theory, so many ways to down an airplane, that it's virtually impossible to protect against them all.
Hell, someone could rent a small plane, and ram it into a jet in mid-air. *shrugs* The list goes on.
Surprisingly, the CS program I was in did not teach you much in the way of IT...kind of frightening if you think about it. I guess IT has been reclassified as some sort of trade in their minds, while CS is some sort of Ivory tower nonsense...
But then, I thought a Bachelors would teach you more than it apparently does...and I am working on fixing that.
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Yes, but think of how much more money the networks made by selling ad space for those three minutes! That's like 3-5 commercials, possibly more.
From what I can tell, the latest attempt to destroy /., and it's working. Mods and others browse @ Score:0 or lower to keep a watch for abuses, and this constant spam is really getting annoying. Especially when a simple fix, like disable Anonymous first-posting, would slow it down.
Thank you. ;-)
The tighter they grasp, the easier the sand spills out from between their fingers.
Indeed. I'm just going to do the usual (I'm in a hurry):
1.) This assumes that there are no legitimate usages of Tor. Nice to see Western countries are still holding the torch for freedom, liberty, and all that jazz; the people in various countries with tighter freedom of speech laws thank you for making it easier for their Thought Police to track them down and kill them.
2.) Common carrier / safe harbor clauses / legality fun. Start blocking traffic...legal issues. Plus your customers aren't paying you to monitor their shit, they're paying you to provide a pipe. If you're watching their data, reading their emails, taking note of the websites they're visiting...well, that's a new level of creepy. And unwelcome.
3.) Will not stop / deter illegal activities and / or Tor. Give it a rest guys...you've been fighting and losing non-stop for years. ISPs start blocking Tor, Tor implements some slight changes, hey look, Tor is back! You've solved nothing. And with or without Tor, illegal stuff is going to go on...and the vast majority of it is being done without Tor. The reality is that this focus on Tor is simply a diversion, a chance to talk about something 'safe,' because you can't do anything about the stuff that actually needs changing.
Not going to happen. The likelihood of Congress passing up a chance to extend a tax is about the same as them passing up a chance to let themselves off the hook for insider trading. Which was cute, by the way...amazing the lack of debate, and pure speed with which that bill was apparently passed into law.
Dude, give up while you still can. Grandparent has 'buy local' religion...you're essentially trying to convince the same kind of person who believes that vaccines cause autism that they might be wrong about something...
Well, there's a reason for that. MS has this weird idea of taking the fight to other guy on their turf...no matter how expensive it is.
Case in point: Netscape got its ass handed to it when MS took it on. Why? Because MS owned the last mile, and could afford to give away a browser for free. That hurt Netscape. Then Netscape starts loses control on the server side of things. Boom. How did MS win? By having Netscape fight on MS's turf: Windows.
Case in point: MS wants to replace Google with Bing, Firefox / Chrome with IE. Their solution? Let's move Office and everything to the web, so Google (which lives on the web, and counts it as its home turf) has MS right where it wants it. A smarter strategy would be to leverage local machine resources to do things that can't be offloaded to Clouds / servers over the internet, and punish Google in the process.
Seriously. MS trades a local CPU with multiple cores at multi-Ghz speeds, gobs of RAM, possibly a SSD, and more than likely a half-decent GPU for...well, a fast connection in the US (FIOS) on average might be 50 Mbps...to some tethered servers which are probably running low-power CPUs and lack GPUs...don't have SSDs...might have a lot of RAM...and more than likely, much higher latency. It's like going to Mars for a cup of water...got plenty of it here on Earth.
Actually, given how the Tech Sector has been run over the past few years...are we being punked? We are being punked, aren't we?
Dude, have you taken a look at Dell's website lately? I can't tell if it's the browsers I'm using + extensions or what, but their 'customize' PC options do not allow any actual customization. It's all pre-fab, default configuration stuff, from what I can tell, and last year's technology to boot. It honestly looks like they fired all of their developers and IT staff, then hired someone with WordPress knowledge to run the site...which is super-bad for a company that wants to bill itself as must have IT. The current Dell is, from all appearance, kind of the direct opposite of the Dell that was the darling of Wall St. That Dell was heavily ladened in actual techs, with real technology, and a website with real options, and the latest must-have hardware. The current one is...yuck, just a retail / sales outfit, farting out old tech, forced to run constant sales / promotions to move inventory (which for a company that pioneered Just-In-Time Inventory, wow), and thinks that the handful of IT that haven't lost their jobs yet and still have some purchasing power are suddenly going to waste it on hideous cost overruns with inadequate hardware. It's just waaaaaaaaay too expensive for even the trivial stuff, and is a sign that the company is in bad health.
As for Windows 8, it appears MS has finally gotten the message. The latest builds of Windows 8.2? something like that have what appears to be the Start button reappearing in Windows. I imagine that shortly after MS gets the other memo (make Metro apps minimize-able, or just buy StarDock and be done with it), we can begin giving Windows 8 some serious consideration. But I still want to see their IT people take the Cat O'Nine Tails to their Marketing staff for the complete pants downer they've been putting everyone through.
As for the PC market writ large...OEMs have been digging their own graves. They refuse to spec in Sold State Drives as standard devices, then wonder why people prefer the zippy Android Tablets with their Flash / SSD-based storage, to the laptops with their clunky mechanical hard drives....which are made worse by OEMs speccing tiny amounts of memory (RAM), and VAL-U hard drives ("Why sure George, 5400 RPM HDs are just as good as 7200 RPM HDs...don't listen to lightknight...what does he know?"). It's Windows guys...it's a BIG OS...and it's not the only one...linux with flair can get kind of hefty as well...so give it the resources it needs to perform well. The people at the bottom of the food chain haven't noticed any improvements over these past few years because a VAL-U PC from 4 years ago is about as fast as a VAL-U PC from today...because the bottleneck is the f*cking 5400 RPM HD. Doesn't matter how many cores that processor has, or how many pixel shaders that GPU has, if the game is still loading from a slow ass HD.
You'll get a boom when an OEM figures out that a decent sized SSD (none of this 64GB SSD BS) is what the customer NEEDs, not what they want. Because the masses can't tell one computer from another...save the price, and that they want one that looks fast; however, when they are actually trying it out, or borrowing someone else's machine, they can tell.
So, let it become a game of keeping both parties out of power, and quietly disassembling the cartel on political power they managed to put together. Some people like to fish, some people like to play video games, others like to find more favorable odds with the local bookie over which politico is next to fall (and make some sweet dosh on the process).
Wow. There really is one person in the universe who thinks that a DA is not corrupt...
So...their idea of dealing with a need for more homegrown STEM candidates (haha, try raising the salary offers a little) is to shoot a nuclear torpedo into their home country's universities' STEM programs? Increasing supply tapers off demand...duh! That's like basic economics...it'll perma-fuck anything at home...it takes like a decade to establish a CS / SE program, let alone the other kinds...less kids attending those programs because of dropping salaries (this includes kids who drop out of the program or switch out)...means less funding going back into the program...means cutbacks. So, I guess this means that in the future, STEMs will come from abroad...and US kids will major in liberal arts, business, arts...yup, this country is going to get 0wned. The next US generation will be hocking the latest diet water craze while the kids of other countries are exploring Mars...
If you're going to quote me, quote me in my entirety. Do not take things out of context.
I will, if only to see how this plays out. If you're going to accuse someone, you better have some evidence.
Actually, I'm quite enjoying this, in a sad, almost sadistic / sarcastic kind of way. For the past few months, I've been inundated on Facebook and other sites by people with extremely poor logic skills or life experiences attempting to explain to me why limiting high capacity magazines (or even outright banning guns) would have a sudden and long-lasting effect on violence / deaths. No amount of careful reasoning about the myriad of ways that a human being can easily die seemed to penetrate the cloak of their minds, and one of my finer points that if you ban guns, people may resort to homemade bombs / other types of weapons that may prove more deadly than the original weapons.
Now, if someone had killed / injured people today at this marathon with a firearm, the press would be running headlines like "the Boston Massacre" and various politicians would be scrambling to be seen signing gun control legislation. But since it appears, for the moment, to have been an explosive device, they are curiously silent. I find it even more troubling that these people seem unaware of how simple it is to construct such dangerous devices from various household items...they liken it to magic, when reality speaks to simple chemistry. I say this, as I live in an area where farmers have, in times past, used substances such as thermite (actually not an explosive), as well as possibly others, for dealing with gopher holes and the like. These are farmers, who may or may not have set foot inside a university chemistry lab, which says nothing of the trouble the US armed forces have encountered on the other side of the world with IEDs.
Sure, you start paying us like doctors, lawyers, and so on, and we'll talk about liability. But the reality is, the software industry would implode with the requirement for liability insurance, as the stuff we work on is far too complicated for even the brightest of programmers, and the pay is often times way too low. You want to sue a PHP programmer making $40K / year because some el cheapo company hired him / her to bang out a site with no lead time and zero patience? Good luck with that.
Although I'd love to see it happen some days, as it would throw 99% of the programmers out of the industry, and drive the wages up to something unthinkable, with triple iron-clad indemnity agreements and waiting lists for a programmer's time that, let's be honest, would be beautiful payback for some of the bullsh*t that has been pumped through the tech sector this last decade. It would also destroy what's left of the tech industry, but then, I can see vultures in the air overhead, and wonder if it's not already too late.
In short, fix the wages / salaries of programmers, and quit dicking around / playing games. If you think outsourcing companies are going to jump on the idea of legal liability for the code they produce, think again: they know what will happen, and will fold. You can pay us to work, and we will work; or you can pretend to pay us, and we will pretend to work. *shrugs*
Don't try to reason with the trolls...they won't exist long enough to learn from their errors.
/., I want an edit function. *edit: other = another.
Fuck that. I think a series of lenses, mirrors, and prisms might be slightly more useful...why reflect when you can redirect?
"Is he pointing a giant convex lens at us? And that looks like a prism....and another prism....and other giant convex lens... Shut the laser down, shut the laser down now!"
To be there when the a Navy ship is sliced in half by its own laser...
Swap();
Why not just mandate that all cars have built-in GPS units? As well, as Bluetooth pairing for phones.
And anyone who has been alive for the past decade is aware that if some group of people hijack your plane, you're better off rushing them, than waiting for a 'successful negotiation.' The problem kind of fixed itself day two of the crisis...
Martial arts, anyone?
Hmm. Squirt a little of each bottle into a clear plastic cup. If one of the travelers starts cringing or crying, then take a step back, and drop a slightly lesser amount than one would normally.
You could even employ two extra people per line, aptly named "Bottle Squeezers," thus increasing the populous jobs programs that is the TSA.
Of course, terrorists could get tricky, and try and split up the explosives, so one carries one component through, and another carries the other, and they both meet up on the same flight. But then, there are, in theory, so many ways to down an airplane, that it's virtually impossible to protect against them all.
Hell, someone could rent a small plane, and ram it into a jet in mid-air. *shrugs* The list goes on.
In the past seventy odd years or so, how many nuclear scientists / chemists / biologists / etc. have gone awol?
There's your answer.
Surprisingly, the CS program I was in did not teach you much in the way of IT...kind of frightening if you think about it. I guess IT has been reclassified as some sort of trade in their minds, while CS is some sort of Ivory tower nonsense...
But then, I thought a Bachelors would teach you more than it apparently does...and I am working on fixing that.