1.) Crime goes up when the economy goes into the tank and people start losing their jobs. Shocking, I know. 2.) There are plenty of security companies willing to scare your pants off in order to sell you expensive monitoring services. They will gladly use the statistic above to those ends.
Oh yah, and we'll throw a "cyber" prefix in front of "crime" to make this look like something new and different.
The passengers were at fault for being racists and reporting a non-issue. The airline was not at fault for handing the matter over to the FBI when the issue was reported. The FBI did the right thing by clearing the family. However, the airline WAS at fault for refusing to let the family fly on any future flight even after they had been cleared by the FBI. There's no legitimate (non-discriminatory) reason to do that given the circumstances.
These people likely had their whole vacation planned, and this incident screwed up their plans. One article said they were going to a religious conference, and it's unlikely that conference was delayed while they tried to make other travel arrangements. On top of all of that, they were made to feel like second-class citizens simply because they were brown and Muslim.
They have good cause for a lawsuit against the airline, and I think they should file one. I'm not talking millions of dollars here, but the airline needs to get slapped in court to make them think twice next time a situation like this crops up.
The fact that incidents like this keep happening show that bin Laden and his cohorts succeeded beyond their wildest dreams on 9/11.
i hope they fuckin fire me. at least then ill be able to look for another job and still have a govt check to pay rent while i do so.
I don't want to throw a wrench in what's obviously a very well thought out plan, but in most (all?) states, you can't collect unemployment if you were fired for cause.
Seriously, wtf is up with this write-up? This story barely qualifies as Slashdot material (apparently if you work in IT, your death is now Slashdot-worthy). On top of that, kdawson uses it as an incredibly flimsy pretext to slam the mainstream media for no apparent reason. Christ man, this discussion is already destined to devolve into the same old political flamewar 90% of every other discussion around here ends up in without you trying to actively stoke the fires by taking the opportunity to slam the "left wing media".
I know kdawson loves conspiracy theories, so I'll give him my conspiracy theory: kdawson only has a job because Slashdot needs the tax breaks they get for hiring mentally challenged people. This would also explain samzenpus.
If you're looking for a computer book that won't put you to sleep, why not try The Story About Ping? It's a short read, but gives a great overview of the ping command, one of the most useful commands in the history of UNIX.
It's a very short and simple read, so if you really hate your kids you could read it to them and make them want to grow up to be sysadmins. A warning, however: steering your children toward system administration is considered child abuse in some states.
The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Given that there are more foreign workers in Dubai than there are citizens, and that most of those foreign workers get by on little better than slave wages and with few rights, I'm amazed something nasty hasn't happened already.
Dubai is building their playground for the rich on the backs of exploited foreign laborers. That sort of arrangement is rarely successful over the long term. Eventually the scattered civil unrest gets larger and more organized, and then the real trouble starts.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but true Laissez-faire capitalism doesn't exist in the real world, and really hasn't since we stopped bartering as cavemen. Arguably, true Laissez-faire capitalism produces an unsustainable economy, as it will tend toward the creation of monopolies which will erect barriers to entry to keep competitors out.
It's generally well understood these days that at least some government intervention is required in order to sustain a healthy economy. Now we just argue endlessly over how much government intervention and what form it should take.
I have ran my business on a antiquated dual P-III dell server with a raid 5 in it running server 2000 for a while now. it does the job GREAT, it's a file server and domain server for only 20 people. and it will run just fine for another 5 years.
The amazing part is it can do all that while sending out thousands of pieces of spam every day!
Seriously though, while it's true that most people don't need to upgrade as often as they do, software does eventually get EOLed by the vendor and needs to be replaced if you want any support for it. In the case of a Win2k box, it will probably serve just fine for another 1 or 2 years, but I think 5 years is pushing it.
The monthly subscription fee also has a set cost that's easy to budget and control. Each individual micropayment feels cheap, and therefore one might initially be inclined to use them more often. However, even small payments quickly add up, and many small payments are much harder to keep track of than one regular larger payment. Before you know it, you end up getting burned when your monthly credit card statement says you spent a lot more than you intended to, and you swear off micropayments forever.
A monthly subscription model also provides more steady and predictable income to the business. People like micropayments initially because the business things people will spend more and consumers think they'll spend less. When it turns out that micropayments just end up making everything more difficult for everyone, they get dropped.
In the post, he displays a bunch of youtube links and refers to them as "Jewtube". Did I miss a meme or is that supposed to be some sort of anti-semitic dig at YouTube?
Relevant cut and paste (since people are reporting the site as down now):
Jewtube videos, make sure you watch in high quality (below links are hq links)
Um...the fact that it's a legislative solution isn't the (only) problem...the rest of the post you're replying to mentions several other problems as well.
The funny thing about the cold war, especially during the big arms buildup era in the 80s, was that just about everywhere you went was a target. I lived in 4 different cities in 4 different states growing up, and everywhere I went people would name a nearby military base/government installation/testing ground/other strategic target and say "at least if they start dropping the bombs we'll just be vaporized". The sad part is, with the number of nuclear weapons that were in play at the time, every one of them was probably right.
My understanding is that most (all?) of these plugin hybrids are being designed to fit a standard household electrical socket. I would think if you have a standard GFI outlet in your garage (and I think just about everyone does) you should be fine. Honestly, I don't see how these things would take off if they required rewiring your house just to be able to recharge them.
I'm with you 100% on the user page. What we have now is uglier and provides less information than the old one. The only reason I go to my own user page is to see if anyone has replied to my comments, and now I have to navigate two (slower) pages to do it. I don't understand what they were thinking on that one. There seems to be no benefit at all to the new page.
It's all part of Slashdot's master plan to become just another digg/fark clone.
Think about it: First they create the Politics section to get people used to the idea that they aren't just "News for Nerds" anymore, then they replace their perfectly good interface with a godawful Web 2.0 mess. Then, they introduce the "Idle" section for so-called "humorous" links (man, I was just thinking to myself: there just aren't enough sites out there dedicated to posting "funny" news stories). Now, content that should be in Idle starts bleeding out into other sections.
Next steps: Creation of "Boobies" tag, site name change to "Rob Malda's Slashdot.org", removal of "Boobies" tag in effort to become a more "serious" funny links aggregator. I can hardly wait.
Look lady, I show up to your house with wine and caviar and you make up some lame excuse about "sleep emailing". If you didn't want the second date, you should have just said so! I'm a Slashdotter, I'm used to rejection, there's no need to lead me on and come up with lame excuses at the last minute.
Well, that's a relief. At least as we descend into a totalitarianist police state, I can take comfort in the fact that the regime isn't technically fascist.
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Sure, because if one poor family spends money frivolously, that must mean they all do, right?
Summary of story:
1.) Crime goes up when the economy goes into the tank and people start losing their jobs. Shocking, I know.
2.) There are plenty of security companies willing to scare your pants off in order to sell you expensive monitoring services. They will gladly use the statistic above to those ends.
Oh yah, and we'll throw a "cyber" prefix in front of "crime" to make this look like something new and different.
The passengers were at fault for being racists and reporting a non-issue. The airline was not at fault for handing the matter over to the FBI when the issue was reported. The FBI did the right thing by clearing the family. However, the airline WAS at fault for refusing to let the family fly on any future flight even after they had been cleared by the FBI. There's no legitimate (non-discriminatory) reason to do that given the circumstances.
These people likely had their whole vacation planned, and this incident screwed up their plans. One article said they were going to a religious conference, and it's unlikely that conference was delayed while they tried to make other travel arrangements. On top of all of that, they were made to feel like second-class citizens simply because they were brown and Muslim.
They have good cause for a lawsuit against the airline, and I think they should file one. I'm not talking millions of dollars here, but the airline needs to get slapped in court to make them think twice next time a situation like this crops up.
The fact that incidents like this keep happening show that bin Laden and his cohorts succeeded beyond their wildest dreams on 9/11.
i hope they fuckin fire me. at least then ill be able to look for another job and still have a govt check to pay rent while i do so.
I don't want to throw a wrench in what's obviously a very well thought out plan, but in most (all?) states, you can't collect unemployment if you were fired for cause.
Seriously, wtf is up with this write-up? This story barely qualifies as Slashdot material (apparently if you work in IT, your death is now Slashdot-worthy). On top of that, kdawson uses it as an incredibly flimsy pretext to slam the mainstream media for no apparent reason. Christ man, this discussion is already destined to devolve into the same old political flamewar 90% of every other discussion around here ends up in without you trying to actively stoke the fires by taking the opportunity to slam the "left wing media".
I know kdawson loves conspiracy theories, so I'll give him my conspiracy theory: kdawson only has a job because Slashdot needs the tax breaks they get for hiring mentally challenged people. This would also explain samzenpus.
Rails can only prosper from this (ugh, I hate how I'm phrasing this) 'merger'.
I agree. They can really leverage synergies and break down some silos with this.
If you're looking for a computer book that won't put you to sleep, why not try The Story About Ping? It's a short read, but gives a great overview of the ping command, one of the most useful commands in the history of UNIX.
It's a very short and simple read, so if you really hate your kids you could read it to them and make them want to grow up to be sysadmins. A warning, however: steering your children toward system administration is considered child abuse in some states.
The optimistic view would be that Vista is more like Windows ME, which would make Windows 7 more like XP. If that's the case, maybe Windows 7 will actually be fairly stable and we can try to pretend Vista never happened, sort of like how we try to forget Windows ME.
Given that there are more foreign workers in Dubai than there are citizens, and that most of those foreign workers get by on little better than slave wages and with few rights, I'm amazed something nasty hasn't happened already.
Dubai is building their playground for the rich on the backs of exploited foreign laborers. That sort of arrangement is rarely successful over the long term. Eventually the scattered civil unrest gets larger and more organized, and then the real trouble starts.
So in other words it's blocky and ugly during the entire game, but the ending sequence is AWESOME.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but true Laissez-faire capitalism doesn't exist in the real world, and really hasn't since we stopped bartering as cavemen. Arguably, true Laissez-faire capitalism produces an unsustainable economy, as it will tend toward the creation of monopolies which will erect barriers to entry to keep competitors out.
It's generally well understood these days that at least some government intervention is required in order to sustain a healthy economy. Now we just argue endlessly over how much government intervention and what form it should take.
The amazing part is it can do all that while sending out thousands of pieces of spam every day!
Seriously though, while it's true that most people don't need to upgrade as often as they do, software does eventually get EOLed by the vendor and needs to be replaced if you want any support for it. In the case of a Win2k box, it will probably serve just fine for another 1 or 2 years, but I think 5 years is pushing it.
The monthly subscription fee also has a set cost that's easy to budget and control. Each individual micropayment feels cheap, and therefore one might initially be inclined to use them more often. However, even small payments quickly add up, and many small payments are much harder to keep track of than one regular larger payment. Before you know it, you end up getting burned when your monthly credit card statement says you spent a lot more than you intended to, and you swear off micropayments forever.
A monthly subscription model also provides more steady and predictable income to the business. People like micropayments initially because the business things people will spend more and consumers think they'll spend less. When it turns out that micropayments just end up making everything more difficult for everyone, they get dropped.
In the post, he displays a bunch of youtube links and refers to them as "Jewtube". Did I miss a meme or is that supposed to be some sort of anti-semitic dig at YouTube?
Relevant cut and paste (since people are reporting the site as down now):
Jewtube videos, make sure you watch in high quality (below links are hq links)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pam5qLu8CwY&fmt=18 - shiny outside video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D2SfiYZwTM&fmt=18 - pretty inside video, it's a bit dark but the leds make it look pretty as it spins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soqL6ol3yIs&fmt=18 - reflection of faces as it spins, somewhat trippy and very under-water-esque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGyOcTHnBD4&fmt=18 - night time reflection in the ceiling, spooky and very scary... mostly
Um...the fact that it's a legislative solution isn't the (only) problem...the rest of the post you're replying to mentions several other problems as well.
The funny thing about the cold war, especially during the big arms buildup era in the 80s, was that just about everywhere you went was a target. I lived in 4 different cities in 4 different states growing up, and everywhere I went people would name a nearby military base/government installation/testing ground/other strategic target and say "at least if they start dropping the bombs we'll just be vaporized". The sad part is, with the number of nuclear weapons that were in play at the time, every one of them was probably right.
One thing about this story confuses me: Why is samzenpus allowed to post stories outside of Idle?
My understanding is that most (all?) of these plugin hybrids are being designed to fit a standard household electrical socket. I would think if you have a standard GFI outlet in your garage (and I think just about everyone does) you should be fine. Honestly, I don't see how these things would take off if they required rewiring your house just to be able to recharge them.
I'm with you 100% on the user page. What we have now is uglier and provides less information than the old one. The only reason I go to my own user page is to see if anyone has replied to my comments, and now I have to navigate two (slower) pages to do it. I don't understand what they were thinking on that one. There seems to be no benefit at all to the new page.
It's all part of Slashdot's master plan to become just another digg/fark clone.
Think about it: First they create the Politics section to get people used to the idea that they aren't just "News for Nerds" anymore, then they replace their perfectly good interface with a godawful Web 2.0 mess. Then, they introduce the "Idle" section for so-called "humorous" links (man, I was just thinking to myself: there just aren't enough sites out there dedicated to posting "funny" news stories). Now, content that should be in Idle starts bleeding out into other sections.
Next steps: Creation of "Boobies" tag, site name change to "Rob Malda's Slashdot.org", removal of "Boobies" tag in effort to become a more "serious" funny links aggregator. I can hardly wait.
Look lady, I show up to your house with wine and caviar and you make up some lame excuse about "sleep emailing". If you didn't want the second date, you should have just said so! I'm a Slashdotter, I'm used to rejection, there's no need to lead me on and come up with lame excuses at the last minute.
If I were that mouse, I would steer clear of USB...I hear she'll let just about anyone in to her "ports".
Except it lost its ball. Pretty sad to lose a ball while you're in your prime.
Oh, I don't know...I hear losing a ball makes it easier to win the Tour de France, so it might not be all bad.
Oh come on, we already have a special event for when an Illinois politician gets busted for corruption...we call it "Tuesday".
Well, that's a relief. At least as we descend into a totalitarianist police state, I can take comfort in the fact that the regime isn't technically fascist.