Suuuure - religious fundie muslims are going to nuke the holy land.
You DO know it's holy to them, too, right?
They take a long view - sure, it'll be hot for a few centuries, but then we'll move right in. Not necessarily us or our children or our children's children, but our descendants will and that's all that matters.
Ahmadinejad is a puppet of the Republican Guard. He's there to spread their influence into the government, which was why the election was rigged (in a very comical way, yet with tragic results for the people of Iran.) Don't even begin to think Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in any way the ultimate authority anymore - the Republican Guard have been replacing key figures in the circles of government with their people for years, sidelining the clerics.
Quite a lot of good information came out during the protests, plus the evidence of "This is what they do" vs "This is what they say", there's no democracy, just going through the motions and then disposing of the ballots before showing the numbers the real powers that be employ to make it look real.
Somewhere I have the spreadsheet released on the state election website, which is utterly pathetic in the way the pumped numbers here and there, but didn't bother with the simple task of making sure they add up or the percentages are even mathematically close. That was strong evidence of their hubris - they don't care they did it badly and stole an election.
Ahmadinejad is simply the side-show, to give bombastic speeches, photo-ops, etc.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
That was the classmates.com people, sending weekly if not daily emails, if I recall correctly. Nothing a little spam filter can't clean up.
I keep getting prods from FB, I have updates. To heck with them, I don't care. I'm not here to enrich these people.
I also found the source of the little pop-ups which want me to finish filling in all my personal information or when they want me to take a tour of something they've added or changed. FB is about as annoying as Windows with all those damn balloons popping up. Sure-fire way to drive me out, keep bugging me.
I've pretty much given up on it. You can't blame/., it's the Medi-uh who have tarred Hackers with by association with Crackers and criminals.
You start explaining the difference between the two to anyone and they'll think you're some kinda weirdo. You're in luck if their eyes simply glaze over rather than they go call DHS and report you as some sort of undesirable.
Given what I've seen of many hardcore fans, it's not terrible advice. You can be a fan *and* still a semi-normal person, but some of the fans take things to extremes and/or seem to have lost track of reality along the way.
Case in point the prospective juror wearing a Star Trek uniform. That was an uncomfortable moment and I don't even consider myself remotely hardcore Trekkie.
"Uh, no, people who like to watch Star Trek shows are not all like that."
Before clicking, I misread "flight" for "fight". I was kinda hoping for a story about a zero-gravity fist fight between 2 astronauts.
Meh. Wouldn't be near as popular as that woman driving cross-country in a diaper trying to kidnap a fellow astronaut. That was pure gold (unless you were in NASA PR, where it was a most definite nightmare.)
Always love to hear him talk, just be himself. So many imaginings of him have been going around for years, yet he's still a pretty cool, regular guy. I hope I can do as well and look back upon a pretty good life when I'm 80.
It is interesting to think that education by vending machine is turning out to be so successful. I can understand how degrees by coursework can benefit from this. It will be interesting if universities with real brands will ever allow master or doctorates to be via online study. When I did my post grad degree, I saw my supervisor for an hour every week, and I know I was lucky at that. I had a friend who was doing his PhD which saw his supervisor for a grand total of 20 hours during his entire research project. He basically just was included as a name in the research papers, and copied in on any and all email correspondence. Even thought is becoming ever more automated these days.
The argument does fall a bit on deaf ears when you are a student in the first two years at university, sitting in a lecture hall of 900 fellow students, while a teaching assistant goes through the material and can't answer any questions for your.
Once you get beyond that level, most people need face-to-face interaction to really understand the subject.
Standford's[sic] AI course, currently ongoing, says otherwise.
So does the Standford[sic] iPhone programming course which a LOT of people have used to learn iPhone development.
None of this is 101 stuff (well perhaps the first few iPhone courses but not beyond that).
It isn't so much the teacher, it's the student. Some are good a learning online, without having a professor to interact with, while others need the interaction.
I think the 'Chuch' regretted when Gutenberg enabled reproducing so many Bibles that any clod (with enough money to buy one) could read id and come up with their own interpretations.
Android speech-to-text actually works pretty well. I'm using it now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark
Troubles with the wife?
Talking trees. He obviously lives in the Forest of Skund.
Nope, that doesn't work that way. The citizens are strictly forbidden to perform any "suspicious activity" - violent games, underage cartoon porn, depiction of svastikas no matter what context and so on. German laws are exceptionally hard there. The government uses an and all means to control the citizens and stop them from doing any of that. The police is deadly efficient, ruthless and merciless fighting all the thoughtcrime so that no new Hitler would ever arise from the nation to overthrow the government and control the minds of the people...
Always the problem with engineering something like Speech Recognition is you'll have to train people to enunciate correctly - though with Siri the opposite may become true, where the LOL, WTF, UR, etc. generation adopt an entirely new dialect to communicate with their devices.
Thank goodness, for the remaining 10% we'll still have the comedy of a person standing on a street corner yelling at their iPhone. "No! Phone home! ET want PHONE HOME! No! Not Rome! PHONE HOME!!"
Make outrageous proposal... when everyone howls, withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... some people howl, others think "meh", withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... a few people howl, a few people think "sounds reasonable", most think "meh", withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... a few people think "sounds reasonable", most think "meh", implement proposal.
Or they find some way to sugar-coat it, bury it in the fine print of some other proposal or wait for just the right political climate...
Invasion! Zygorthian Death Shuttles landing in Grover's Mill! Death Rays fired at town water tower and a few fence posts! President declares emergency! VeriSign, in major patriotic thrust declares they must have the ability to suspend domains without a court order and without due process to save they day!
Reason? We just wanted to see how much we could get away with because we are slimy worms.
Or perhaps they ran it up the flagpole to see how various parties would react.
Could well be an attorney or Attorney General or Powerful Industry Lobby Group or very well placed janitor convinced they they would be wise to bin the idea.
Slashdot Mirror
Suuuure - religious fundie muslims are going to nuke the holy land.
You DO know it's holy to them, too, right?
They take a long view - sure, it'll be hot for a few centuries, but then we'll move right in. Not necessarily us or our children or our children's children, but our descendants will and that's all that matters.
Ahmadinejad is a puppet of the Republican Guard. He's there to spread their influence into the government, which was why the election was rigged (in a very comical way, yet with tragic results for the people of Iran.) Don't even begin to think Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in any way the ultimate authority anymore - the Republican Guard have been replacing key figures in the circles of government with their people for years, sidelining the clerics.
Quite a lot of good information came out during the protests, plus the evidence of "This is what they do" vs "This is what they say", there's no democracy, just going through the motions and then disposing of the ballots before showing the numbers the real powers that be employ to make it look real.
Somewhere I have the spreadsheet released on the state election website, which is utterly pathetic in the way the pumped numbers here and there, but didn't bother with the simple task of making sure they add up or the percentages are even mathematically close. That was strong evidence of their hubris - they don't care they did it badly and stole an election.
Ahmadinejad is simply the side-show, to give bombastic speeches, photo-ops, etc.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
That was the classmates.com people, sending weekly if not daily emails, if I recall correctly. Nothing a little spam filter can't clean up.
I keep getting prods from FB, I have updates. To heck with them, I don't care. I'm not here to enrich these people.
I also found the source of the little pop-ups which want me to finish filling in all my personal information or when they want me to take a tour of something they've added or changed. FB is about as annoying as Windows with all those damn balloons popping up. Sure-fire way to drive me out, keep bugging me.
you're using it wrong.
I've pretty much given up on it. You can't blame /., it's the Medi-uh who have tarred Hackers with by association with Crackers and criminals.
You start explaining the difference between the two to anyone and they'll think you're some kinda weirdo. You're in luck if their eyes simply glaze over rather than they go call DHS and report you as some sort of undesirable.
You mean hackers get dates there?
They try .. all those love letters to Darth Vader, Mal and Tom Servo come back unopened...
nuf said
I feel for ya, but you're more likely to see the Slashdot Channel first.
Given what I've seen of many hardcore fans, it's not terrible advice. You can be a fan *and* still a semi-normal person, but some of the fans take things to extremes and/or seem to have lost track of reality along the way.
Case in point the prospective juror wearing a Star Trek uniform. That was an uncomfortable moment and I don't even consider myself remotely hardcore Trekkie.
"Uh, no, people who like to watch Star Trek shows are not all like that."
Before clicking, I misread "flight" for "fight". I was kinda hoping for a story about a zero-gravity fist fight between 2 astronauts.
Meh. Wouldn't be near as popular as that woman driving cross-country in a diaper trying to kidnap a fellow astronaut. That was pure gold (unless you were in NASA PR, where it was a most definite nightmare.)
Always love to hear him talk, just be himself. So many imaginings of him have been going around for years, yet he's still a pretty cool, regular guy. I hope I can do as well and look back upon a pretty good life when I'm 80.
I wonder if he was told he won the Slobobvian Lottery before he was hit.
It is interesting to think that education by vending machine is turning out to be so successful. I can understand how degrees by coursework can benefit from this. It will be interesting if universities with real brands will ever allow master or doctorates to be via online study. When I did my post grad degree, I saw my supervisor for an hour every week, and I know I was lucky at that. I had a friend who was doing his PhD which saw his supervisor for a grand total of 20 hours during his entire research project. He basically just was included as a name in the research papers, and copied in on any and all email correspondence. Even thought is becoming ever more automated these days.
The argument does fall a bit on deaf ears when you are a student in the first two years at university, sitting in a lecture hall of 900 fellow students, while a teaching assistant goes through the material and can't answer any questions for your.
Once you get beyond that level, most people need face-to-face interaction to really understand the subject.
Standford's[sic] AI course, currently ongoing, says otherwise.
So does the Standford[sic] iPhone programming course which a LOT of people have used to learn iPhone development.
None of this is 101 stuff (well perhaps the first few iPhone courses but not beyond that).
It isn't so much the teacher, it's the student. Some are good a learning online, without having a professor to interact with, while others need the interaction.
I think the 'Chuch' regretted when Gutenberg enabled reproducing so many Bibles that any clod (with enough money to buy one) could read id and come up with their own interpretations.
History is like a supper of radishes, it repeats.
on Start Trek
Computer......
An I think that's the thing... you must prefix each command so it knows you are addressing it, not Mr. Spock or Lt. Uhura.
Android speech-to-text actually works pretty well. I'm using it now to write this and I find bark bark shaddup I find that it bark bark shut up damnit bark bark don't make me come down there I find that bark bark okay that's it I'm coming down there argh crash thud bark bark bark bark bark bark
Troubles with the wife?
Talking trees. He obviously lives in the Forest of Skund.
Of course. Half the point of Apple's gadgets seem to be to draw attention to them all the fucking time. Case in point: the story above.
Totally!
Posted from my iPhone
1. Get rid of the keyboard
2. Get rid of the buttons
3. Get rid of the touch screen (iPhone 5, after everyone uses Siri exclusively)
4. Get rid of the voice input (iPhone 6)
Now you just think what you want to do, and it will be done.
Pretty sweet, until the person in charge of city engineering takes a snort or toke during break...
Nope, that doesn't work that way.
The citizens are strictly forbidden to perform any "suspicious activity" - violent games, underage cartoon porn, depiction of svastikas no matter what context and so on. German laws are exceptionally hard there.
The government uses an and all means to control the citizens and stop them from doing any of that. The police is deadly efficient, ruthless and merciless fighting all the thoughtcrime so that no new Hitler would ever arise from the nation to overthrow the government and control the minds of the people...
So good of Orwell to write an instruction manual.
Always the problem with engineering something like Speech Recognition is you'll have to train people to enunciate correctly - though with Siri the opposite may become true, where the LOL, WTF, UR, etc. generation adopt an entirely new dialect to communicate with their devices.
Thank goodness, for the remaining 10% we'll still have the comedy of a person standing on a street corner yelling at their iPhone. "No! Phone home! ET want PHONE HOME! No! Not Rome! PHONE HOME!!"
it was always assumed that it was West Germany assimilated East. Instead, it appears that the Stasi lives on, in spirit if not name.
It's not exactly your vater's Blinkenlights, is it?
So tempting to take the lid off, play around with it, see what else it can do.
Make outrageous proposal... when everyone howls, withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... some people howl, others think "meh", withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... a few people howl, a few people think "sounds reasonable", most think "meh", withdraw proposal.
Make outrageous proposal again... a few people think "sounds reasonable", most think "meh", implement proposal.
Or they find some way to sugar-coat it, bury it in the fine print of some other proposal or wait for just the right political climate ...
Invasion! Zygorthian Death Shuttles landing in Grover's Mill! Death Rays fired at town water tower and a few fence posts! President declares emergency! VeriSign, in major patriotic thrust declares they must have the ability to suspend domains without a court order and without due process to save they day!
It's all in the timing.
Reason? We just wanted to see how much we could get away with because we are slimy worms.
Or perhaps they ran it up the flagpole to see how various parties would react.
Could well be an attorney or Attorney General or Powerful Industry Lobby Group or very well placed janitor convinced they they would be wise to bin the idea.
How arrogant! Do you really think Slashdot had anything to do with the withdrawal ?
Quiet, you. Or they won't show you your data that they hold with their intellectual property trade secrets!
Nothing says there's a problem. It's just an interesting little tidbit.
Rather like saying "There will be weather today."