hackers claimed to have stolen Mitt Romney’s tax returns
and
someone who snuck into the building and made copies of the document
seem to have a slight discrepancy lol. So they want $1 mil in bitcoins and yet they sent copies to "Democratic and Republican leaders in that county." Oh yes, I'm so sure those will never see the light of day if he pays after they gave them to the democrats. No wonder these people were too stupid to hack it digitally. They're operating this like complete morons.
Personally, I can't stand ANY multiplayer games. Not sure exactly why, I guess I prefer to compete against fixed challenges and at my own pace. I am probably in the minority, but I certainly can't be alone.
Nope. Here's, let me prove it. Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind.
In quite a few states, possibly all of them, you need some sort of certification or registration or permit to create a gun from scratch. So it's not really an opinion at this point. It was decided decades ago and is already law.
Or, put your phone in a RF-blocking container like a Faraday mesh sleeve (not expensive) and then if you do want to use it, pull it out and use it. That's obviously superior to leaving it at home. You could just pull the battery too.
Okay, I may have hung out with geeky smart kids who did projects and junk but still, everyone without severe behavioural problems has to be into SOMETHING that they learned in school. You can't hate EVERYTHING. Even some pessimistic, downer, emo kid that gets straight D's might love doing art or ponies or writing music or something.
Kids do 75% of their growing during 25% of the year: the summer when they actually get sleep mostly and also sufficient food whenever they want to eat it. So cut out a bit of the summer, and we're gonna have some short kids:-P Of course, several school districts in the US bumped start time up 1 hour to like 9:00 and behavioral problems basically disappeared, skipping school stopped, test scores went through the roof, and kids' opinions of school went up. Since kids aren't designed to get up that early, it's just because of their selfish, lazy, assholes parents that both work, maybe they should just implement that instead.
You can do that with both parents working. You just need to be a little flexible with their work schedule.
Well, there's that. That's why one parent should work part time and I personally don't care which. Make sure one's home or take all that money you're allegedly making with 2 full time incomes and move to a house right across from the school. I walked about a quarter mile (so like 1000 feet) to the school door even in -20 degree weather and it's just 1000 feet lol. That's not that cold until at least 2500 feet, even in the morning lol. Welcome to Wisconsin. I think I got there before the car would have started.
I think in the US (I assume you're talking about) all hunger stats are BS. I just bought a double cheeseburger for $1. I can personally go with nothing on me and find and make $1 in recycling steel scrap in about 30 minutes. It's not healthy, and yeah it's a huge well known problem that poor = fat too often just because of the cost of good food, but saying people in the US go hungry is absurd. Irresponsible parents failing to feed a child is one thing though because kids can't just find food. Other than that, they just can't find "good" food. If you want to see hunger, go to Africa where nothing grows, it's hot as hell, there's no surface water, and most animals that are edible will kick your ass. Although, most African countries do have McDonalds now but I'm not sure about the price levels:P
I own my own company so no. It was 100% selfish greed that put both parents in the workplace in the first place by the way. That and alleged sexism that did actually exist but still, SOMEONE has to raise the kids. I honestly don't care which parents myself, just one of them should be home.
They should buy out McAfee. Everyone already hates McAfee so it'd be a perfect fit. By the way, nobody in human history has teamed up to stop malware in any form ever. They'd have to fire all their human employees and get rid of all their computers, lol.
Kids do 75% of their growing during 25% of the year: the summer when they actually get sleep mostly and also sufficient food whenever they want to eat it. So cut out a bit of the summer, and we're gonna have some short kids:-P Of course, several school districts in the US bumped start time up 1 hour to like 9:00 and behavioral problems basically disappeared, skipping school stopped, test scores went through the roof, and kids' opinions of school went up. Since kids aren't designed to get up that early, it's just because of their selfish, lazy, assholes parents that both work, maybe they should just implement that instead.
They should drop traditional teaching, which EVERY kid hates, and do like 1 month of independent study for 7th graders on up. That would let them apply whatever field of learning they most enjoy to a real world project. If you're into chemistry, build a battery and solar array. If you like computers, build and test one. Okay those are really expensive but still:-P If you're into history, do a gigantic research paper/presentation into a specific event or research the town's history. Giving kids a little freedom while forcing them to actually use their brains would be a great idea.
I keep seeing articles like this on slashdot but this one takes the cake, pun semi-intended. I have a question
In the disk of gas and dust surrounding this newly formed star, we found glycolaldehyde.
How? Does it reflect some rare particular frequency of light? Oh wait, Doppler wavelength dilation. Did they travel out there and scoop some up to sample it? I don't get it! Why do they never mention how they determined what molecule is off on some distant solar system?! Good thing some intelligent slashdotter is about to reply and explain it to all of us 10x simpler and faster than any article anywhere ever:-D
Just as soon as they make a CPU faster than my brain and AI smarter than my reasoning, they can rubber stamp that all they want. Until then, get robocar out of my way.
Hey, my dream "camping" trip is to set up an all solar powered rig from scratch with all the wiring and stuff and run a middle of the forest LAN party. Now THAT is camping! I mean come on, how cool is that? But now the hantavirus...oh well. Oh wait, we can add a panel and do ultrasonic anti-rodent speaker thingies lol.
But seriously, ever since I was little, I've found creative ways to rig up custom electronics and circuits to get power where it shouldn't go while I'm camping. Some people catch and make food, I rig up and run inverters and batteries. It's like survival camping except WAY more realistic in the context of a global apocalypse. You know, like the show The Colony.
And why aren't you coding on a device that's actually fast? Since my company, you know, pays me by the hour to work, I code as fast as I can and that means desktop and full sized keyboard. Let's see your tablet run complex database I/O code tests. I'll go make a sandwich while yours finishes. Oh and perhaps you should go read that slashdot story about how iOS apps are like a slot machine that the vast majority of developers don't win (make money) on and then go buy a PC.
Considering the first RAM drive I saw was on Tech TV before G4 bought it, I think they have pretty solid ones designed now. Also, considering an enclosure and a buttload of RAM sticks takes like 20W to run so a UPS could run it for days, anyone could build something even faster and better-ish right now.
Why do atomic clocks work 100% flawlessly all the time then? They're notorious for not randomly speeding up and slowing down (unless they change velocity). This is that neutrinos go faster than light BS all over again. Get bad results, publish to get lots of popularity and money, and then someone outs you by not replicating the results.
Knowing almost nothing about this sort of thing, I can still disprove their idiotic conclusion. Observe:
decay rates are measured when a nuclear radiation particle is created from when a neutron...oh let's say blows up:P So some little alpha particle for example gets detected and counted and tada, you can calculate the decay rate which you actually knew in the first place since it's always the same.
So, what are solar flares made out of? Nuclear radiation. Specifically, the exact same kind which can make it through the atmosphere and be picked up accidentally by the sensor. In fact, all the sensor is is an electric impulse fed into a computer chip. If a completely different type of radiation causes an electrical impulse, it can be mistaken for radiation coming from your high-neutron isotope melting down. Tada, the end. Seriously, how did nobody think of that yet?
Move somewhere colder. Let me phrase that differently. Move somewhere where you can walk outside and stand there for 1 hour without dying. Animals are smart enough to do it but it seems some humans aren't.
Well since space/time obviously warps based on speed an gravity (proven by atomic clocks on satellites orbiting Earth) then that's completely wrong. Since photons travel at the speed of light, don't they all independently max out the level of warping capable of space so they appear to all be 100% unaffected by anything else? Why wouldn't they get misaligned slightly from gravity though? They can't say the timing matched but the vectors didn't, indicating the same absolute distance through space, as the timing would be off for one traveling at a slight angle relative to whatever sensor they used. Also, how could they even determine the angle with a single plane as a receiver, like it sounds like they perhaps used. Not a word of that article makes sense or sounds remotely true.
"Worn as a bracelet." Oooooooh. Live Strong would really mean it if I could attach electrode brass knuckles and taze someone with my epic battery bracelet.
That does pretty well outline the feeling in Linux that it's designed for someone willing to put up with a lot of technical, non-user friendly except to the elite expert stuff. That's why I can't believe some repair shops are pushing Ubuntu on customers like it's the savior to the human race when it's so unbelievably technical and unfriendly, even me (a software programmer, web designer, hardware expert, and head IT manager at a company) didn't think it was worth all the absurdity. I think grandma agrees.
The worst part is, there have been many studies and opinion pieces that summarize the Linux online community as extremely elitist, talking down to new people, and lording their alleged advanced knowledge while at the same time absolutely refusing to share it with anyone else. Now that's a great way to promote the OS. I don't need some hand-holdy Dell/AT&T bullshit support but not being a dick if I ask a question about something significantly different from Windows in Ubuntu might be helpful.
That isn't surprising considering they're polar opposites! I'm not talking about design and function and style, I mean that Apple is all about psychotic levels of control, MONEY MONEY MONEY, and locking everything down into their pretty little walled garden. Linux is exactly, perfectly the opposite. It's designed for anyone to use without some company controlling it or paying a ton of money or not being able to modify it, etc. They aren't even targeting remotely the same market other than "people who don't want to use Windows."
Well, you know what they say: if you want to really play a real game, use a real computer. I can only imagine what hell it is to attempt to control skyrim with joysticks. I assume archery is impossible, if they even left it in the game in the first place.
Do keep in mind though that back in N64 days, they had to 100% complete 100% of the game, test it until it was actually perfect, then release it and there was no way to patch it. Maybe they should bring back those sorts of standard.
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seem to have a slight discrepancy lol. So they want $1 mil in bitcoins and yet they sent copies to "Democratic and Republican leaders in that county." Oh yes, I'm so sure those will never see the light of day if he pays after they gave them to the democrats. No wonder these people were too stupid to hack it digitally. They're operating this like complete morons.
Personally, I can't stand ANY multiplayer games. Not sure exactly why, I guess I prefer to compete against fixed challenges and at my own pace. I am probably in the minority, but I certainly can't be alone.
Nope. Here's, let me prove it. Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind.
In quite a few states, possibly all of them, you need some sort of certification or registration or permit to create a gun from scratch. So it's not really an opinion at this point. It was decided decades ago and is already law.
Or, put your phone in a RF-blocking container like a Faraday mesh sleeve (not expensive) and then if you do want to use it, pull it out and use it. That's obviously superior to leaving it at home. You could just pull the battery too.
Okay, I may have hung out with geeky smart kids who did projects and junk but still, everyone without severe behavioural problems has to be into SOMETHING that they learned in school. You can't hate EVERYTHING. Even some pessimistic, downer, emo kid that gets straight D's might love doing art or ponies or writing music or something.
Kids do 75% of their growing during 25% of the year: the summer when they actually get sleep mostly and also sufficient food whenever they want to eat it. So cut out a bit of the summer, and we're gonna have some short kids :-P Of course, several school districts in the US bumped start time up 1 hour to like 9:00 and behavioral problems basically disappeared, skipping school stopped, test scores went through the roof, and kids' opinions of school went up. Since kids aren't designed to get up that early, it's just because of their selfish, lazy, assholes parents that both work, maybe they should just implement that instead.
You can do that with both parents working. You just need to be a little flexible with their work schedule.
Well, there's that. That's why one parent should work part time and I personally don't care which. Make sure one's home or take all that money you're allegedly making with 2 full time incomes and move to a house right across from the school. I walked about a quarter mile (so like 1000 feet) to the school door even in -20 degree weather and it's just 1000 feet lol. That's not that cold until at least 2500 feet, even in the morning lol. Welcome to Wisconsin. I think I got there before the car would have started.
I think in the US (I assume you're talking about) all hunger stats are BS. I just bought a double cheeseburger for $1. I can personally go with nothing on me and find and make $1 in recycling steel scrap in about 30 minutes. It's not healthy, and yeah it's a huge well known problem that poor = fat too often just because of the cost of good food, but saying people in the US go hungry is absurd. Irresponsible parents failing to feed a child is one thing though because kids can't just find food. Other than that, they just can't find "good" food. If you want to see hunger, go to Africa where nothing grows, it's hot as hell, there's no surface water, and most animals that are edible will kick your ass. Although, most African countries do have McDonalds now but I'm not sure about the price levels :P
I own my own company so no. It was 100% selfish greed that put both parents in the workplace in the first place by the way. That and alleged sexism that did actually exist but still, SOMEONE has to raise the kids. I honestly don't care which parents myself, just one of them should be home.
They should buy out McAfee. Everyone already hates McAfee so it'd be a perfect fit. By the way, nobody in human history has teamed up to stop malware in any form ever. They'd have to fire all their human employees and get rid of all their computers, lol.
If I had the money, I'd pay a guy to stand outside Apple HQ with a sign that says "fuck you, Apple!" so I'm all for this as well.
Kids do 75% of their growing during 25% of the year: the summer when they actually get sleep mostly and also sufficient food whenever they want to eat it. So cut out a bit of the summer, and we're gonna have some short kids :-P Of course, several school districts in the US bumped start time up 1 hour to like 9:00 and behavioral problems basically disappeared, skipping school stopped, test scores went through the roof, and kids' opinions of school went up. Since kids aren't designed to get up that early, it's just because of their selfish, lazy, assholes parents that both work, maybe they should just implement that instead.
They should drop traditional teaching, which EVERY kid hates, and do like 1 month of independent study for 7th graders on up. That would let them apply whatever field of learning they most enjoy to a real world project. If you're into chemistry, build a battery and solar array. If you like computers, build and test one. Okay those are really expensive but still :-P If you're into history, do a gigantic research paper/presentation into a specific event or research the town's history. Giving kids a little freedom while forcing them to actually use their brains would be a great idea.
How? Does it reflect some rare particular frequency of light? Oh wait, Doppler wavelength dilation. Did they travel out there and scoop some up to sample it? I don't get it! Why do they never mention how they determined what molecule is off on some distant solar system?! Good thing some intelligent slashdotter is about to reply and explain it to all of us 10x simpler and faster than any article anywhere ever :-D
Just as soon as they make a CPU faster than my brain and AI smarter than my reasoning, they can rubber stamp that all they want. Until then, get robocar out of my way.
Hey, my dream "camping" trip is to set up an all solar powered rig from scratch with all the wiring and stuff and run a middle of the forest LAN party. Now THAT is camping! I mean come on, how cool is that? But now the hantavirus...oh well. Oh wait, we can add a panel and do ultrasonic anti-rodent speaker thingies lol.
But seriously, ever since I was little, I've found creative ways to rig up custom electronics and circuits to get power where it shouldn't go while I'm camping. Some people catch and make food, I rig up and run inverters and batteries. It's like survival camping except WAY more realistic in the context of a global apocalypse. You know, like the show The Colony.
And why aren't you coding on a device that's actually fast? Since my company, you know, pays me by the hour to work, I code as fast as I can and that means desktop and full sized keyboard. Let's see your tablet run complex database I/O code tests. I'll go make a sandwich while yours finishes. Oh and perhaps you should go read that slashdot story about how iOS apps are like a slot machine that the vast majority of developers don't win (make money) on and then go buy a PC.
Considering the first RAM drive I saw was on Tech TV before G4 bought it, I think they have pretty solid ones designed now. Also, considering an enclosure and a buttload of RAM sticks takes like 20W to run so a UPS could run it for days, anyone could build something even faster and better-ish right now.
Why do atomic clocks work 100% flawlessly all the time then? They're notorious for not randomly speeding up and slowing down (unless they change velocity). This is that neutrinos go faster than light BS all over again. Get bad results, publish to get lots of popularity and money, and then someone outs you by not replicating the results.
:P So some little alpha particle for example gets detected and counted and tada, you can calculate the decay rate which you actually knew in the first place since it's always the same.
Knowing almost nothing about this sort of thing, I can still disprove their idiotic conclusion. Observe:
decay rates are measured when a nuclear radiation particle is created from when a neutron...oh let's say blows up
So, what are solar flares made out of? Nuclear radiation. Specifically, the exact same kind which can make it through the atmosphere and be picked up accidentally by the sensor. In fact, all the sensor is is an electric impulse fed into a computer chip. If a completely different type of radiation causes an electrical impulse, it can be mistaken for radiation coming from your high-neutron isotope melting down. Tada, the end. Seriously, how did nobody think of that yet?
Move somewhere colder. Let me phrase that differently. Move somewhere where you can walk outside and stand there for 1 hour without dying. Animals are smart enough to do it but it seems some humans aren't.
You didn't hear it from me but....sticky, long-chain hydrocarbons can be made into napalm really super easily :-P
Well since space/time obviously warps based on speed an gravity (proven by atomic clocks on satellites orbiting Earth) then that's completely wrong. Since photons travel at the speed of light, don't they all independently max out the level of warping capable of space so they appear to all be 100% unaffected by anything else? Why wouldn't they get misaligned slightly from gravity though? They can't say the timing matched but the vectors didn't, indicating the same absolute distance through space, as the timing would be off for one traveling at a slight angle relative to whatever sensor they used. Also, how could they even determine the angle with a single plane as a receiver, like it sounds like they perhaps used. Not a word of that article makes sense or sounds remotely true.
"Worn as a bracelet." Oooooooh. Live Strong would really mean it if I could attach electrode brass knuckles and taze someone with my epic battery bracelet.
That does pretty well outline the feeling in Linux that it's designed for someone willing to put up with a lot of technical, non-user friendly except to the elite expert stuff. That's why I can't believe some repair shops are pushing Ubuntu on customers like it's the savior to the human race when it's so unbelievably technical and unfriendly, even me (a software programmer, web designer, hardware expert, and head IT manager at a company) didn't think it was worth all the absurdity. I think grandma agrees.
The worst part is, there have been many studies and opinion pieces that summarize the Linux online community as extremely elitist, talking down to new people, and lording their alleged advanced knowledge while at the same time absolutely refusing to share it with anyone else. Now that's a great way to promote the OS. I don't need some hand-holdy Dell/AT&T bullshit support but not being a dick if I ask a question about something significantly different from Windows in Ubuntu might be helpful.
That isn't surprising considering they're polar opposites! I'm not talking about design and function and style, I mean that Apple is all about psychotic levels of control, MONEY MONEY MONEY, and locking everything down into their pretty little walled garden. Linux is exactly, perfectly the opposite. It's designed for anyone to use without some company controlling it or paying a ton of money or not being able to modify it, etc. They aren't even targeting remotely the same market other than "people who don't want to use Windows."
Well, you know what they say: if you want to really play a real game, use a real computer. I can only imagine what hell it is to attempt to control skyrim with joysticks. I assume archery is impossible, if they even left it in the game in the first place.
Do keep in mind though that back in N64 days, they had to 100% complete 100% of the game, test it until it was actually perfect, then release it and there was no way to patch it. Maybe they should bring back those sorts of standard.