Gender and culture start early in life, and continue through life. More on this when we talk about how women dominate professions which require high empathy and social skills.
Once upon a time, scientists explained everything with "cat" analogies. One day a "science journalist" misread one as being a "car" analogy, and it's been downhill ever since. Scientists make discoveries and announcements, and the next day we get articles on newscientist.com about how cars like to drink milk and chase mice.
Granted, there aren't a lot of people going to scurry off and "carefully craft" a font in an obsolete format for a new 0-day 'sploit. Actually, it's the "23-years old" and "discovered by a (new) automated test" parts that are interesting. Possibly even slashworthy.
1) Clearly you haven't been to the airport or crossed the border in YEARS.
2) The NSA is reading your email, monitoring your phone calls, keeping track of what websites you visit, knows who your Facebook friends are, out to 4 degrees.
3) Been pulled over for using a cell phone while driving, not wearing a seatbelt, or just asked for some DNA by the friendly police-escorted federal contractors?
4) Buy a couple ounces of gold. Buy a gun. Write or deposit a check for $10,000 or more. March at a rally. Expect to wind up in a database.
5) Walk down a big-city street and wave at all the cameras.
It is the worst medical system in the world - for people who care what it costs. Statements like yours remind me of Mitt Romney's "What's the big deal? Borrow the money from your daddy and start a business!" comment - completely impervious to reality.
The original poster gave ALL the credit for feeding a billion starving people to (only) Genetically Modified/Engineered seeds, completely ignoring the better irrigation, fertilization, insect control, and crop rotation practices, and yes, hybrid seeds that have been being exported to the third world for the last 60-or-so years. I was simply taking exception to his outrageously false claim. Yet somehow, he's Insightful, and I'm Overrated. I think many people would have much less of a problem with GMO foods in general if Monsanto's business practices weren't so oppressively evil, and the notion of routinely spraying Roundup on all our cereal grains (both for humans and livestock) weren't quite so heinous.
So you're saying that the increase in productivity of GMO grains over "traditional" grains, given the same arable land area is enough to feed an additional billion people? In a word: bullshit.
OK, accepted. Now let me troll you back. Ostensibly, PETA's aim is
"PETA aims to collect video footage of any illegal activity, including drinking while in the possession of a firearm; using spotlights, feed lures, and other forbidden hunting tricks; and maiming animals and failing to pursue them."
Which, on its face, sounds good. If a game warden saw you doing any of those things, you'd be in deep trouble. You're clearly a hunter or know a few, ever know someone to have a few beers at lunch and head back out? Or gawdawful hungover? How about baiting? Ever see the old "Warning! Deer eating this corn will be shot!" gag sign? And now to the one that bugs me the most: as a target (only) archer, I don't know how many really terrible "archers" I've seen hanging around the shop/range bragging about "yeah, I hit him, but then lost the blood trail after an hour...". Bow hunters injuring and maiming animals is just a dirty little secret of the sport. Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss. So, while not for a second supporting the douche collective that is PETA, I have to say, their stated aims don't sound all that bad.
"Whenever we hear about attempts to undermine Apple's industry-leading security, we thoroughly investigate and take appropriate steps to protect our customers"
Seriously, this only came about because Snowden was able to get out of the building with that much evidence. All the NSA has to do is add a few more procedures and that particular problem goes away. Without proof, they can simply write you off as a "conspiracy theorist", as they did to so many who have been screaming "They're spying on us!" for the last ten years. In truth, the article headline should have read "More Surveillance Will Lead To Even More Surveillance". They've started spying on EVERYONE, and the positive feedback loop will only make it increase. Sure, the NSA (and the US gubment in general) has a PR problem about this at present, but simply driving the surveillance back underground, where they think it belongs anyways will put an end to that. Then all they have to do is wait for the American attention span to make the rest of the problem go away. The loss to ostensibly American (but really stateless multi-national) companies (Boeing, et al.) will only be temporary. Meanwhile, every technologically advanced state and corporation on the planet is harvesting as much data as they can, just to a lesser extent. Remember: boil the frog SLOWLY.
If you really want to work against the problem, don't attack it piecemeal (NSA spying, TSA overreach, federal spit collectors, chilling effects, etc.). Go after the REAL cause of the problem, this amorphous concept of a "War on Terror", and the stated objective to "keep us all safe". When your goal is something THAT ill-defined and nebulous, and you've got something as egregious as the PATRIOT Act in hand, well, repeat after me, "I love Big Brother".
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Visit any kintergarten or grade school. I can assure you that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is FAR more toxic than a thousand CFLs.
And start by running two CAT-5 and two coax cables to each WALL in every room. Yeah. Yeah wireless... Yeah, whatever. Run the cables.
Threshold of unusability, most likely.
"Don't make me android. You wouldn't like me when I'm android."
Yikes. I'm not touching that.
Gender and culture start early in life, and continue through life. More on this when we talk about how women dominate professions which require high empathy and social skills.
Once upon a time, scientists explained everything with "cat" analogies. One day a "science journalist" misread one as being a "car" analogy, and it's been downhill ever since. Scientists make discoveries and announcements, and the next day we get articles on newscientist.com about how cars like to drink milk and chase mice.
That's "Fronkensteen".
It's evidence Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked them out of HIS galaxy.
Let's see if that's true:
print "$#_ [@_]\n\n";
GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
OK, point taken.
Granted, there aren't a lot of people going to scurry off and "carefully craft" a font in an obsolete format for a new 0-day 'sploit. Actually, it's the "23-years old" and "discovered by a (new) automated test" parts that are interesting. Possibly even slashworthy.
1) Clearly you haven't been to the airport or crossed the border in YEARS.
2) The NSA is reading your email, monitoring your phone calls, keeping track of what websites you visit, knows who your Facebook friends are, out to 4 degrees.
3) Been pulled over for using a cell phone while driving, not wearing a seatbelt, or just asked for some DNA by the friendly police-escorted federal contractors?
4) Buy a couple ounces of gold. Buy a gun. Write or deposit a check for $10,000 or more. March at a rally. Expect to wind up in a database.
5) Walk down a big-city street and wave at all the cameras.
It is the worst medical system in the world - for people who care what it costs. Statements like yours remind me of Mitt Romney's "What's the big deal? Borrow the money from your daddy and start a business!" comment - completely impervious to reality.
Before some clueless idiot mods this Offtopic or Troll, read it again. It's hilarious.
The original poster gave ALL the credit for feeding a billion starving people to (only) Genetically Modified/Engineered seeds, completely ignoring the better irrigation, fertilization, insect control, and crop rotation practices, and yes, hybrid seeds that have been being exported to the third world for the last 60-or-so years. I was simply taking exception to his outrageously false claim. Yet somehow, he's Insightful, and I'm Overrated. I think many people would have much less of a problem with GMO foods in general if Monsanto's business practices weren't so oppressively evil, and the notion of routinely spraying Roundup on all our cereal grains (both for humans and livestock) weren't quite so heinous.
GP is giving all the credit to GMO seeds. He's lying.
So you're saying that the increase in productivity of GMO grains over "traditional" grains, given the same arable land area is enough to feed an additional billion people? In a word: bullshit.
So, just like the Star Trek universe then?
Make that a first post while you're at it.
I literally started to type it that way, and corrected it, saying to myself "Nah, some Slashdot pedant...".
Have they looked for power surges of 1.21 gigawatts?
Rogers on that. I had a Bob Metcalfe flashback when I read the headline.
Which, on its face, sounds good. If a game warden saw you doing any of those things, you'd be in deep trouble. You're clearly a hunter or know a few, ever know someone to have a few beers at lunch and head back out? Or gawdawful hungover? How about baiting? Ever see the old "Warning! Deer eating this corn will be shot!" gag sign? And now to the one that bugs me the most: as a target (only) archer, I don't know how many really terrible "archers" I've seen hanging around the shop/range bragging about "yeah, I hit him, but then lost the blood trail after an hour...". Bow hunters injuring and maiming animals is just a dirty little secret of the sport. Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss. So, while not for a second supporting the douche collective that is PETA, I have to say, their stated aims don't sound all that bad.
Best laugh I've had all day.
Seriously, this only came about because Snowden was able to get out of the building with that much evidence. All the NSA has to do is add a few more procedures and that particular problem goes away. Without proof, they can simply write you off as a "conspiracy theorist", as they did to so many who have been screaming "They're spying on us!" for the last ten years. In truth, the article headline should have read "More Surveillance Will Lead To Even More Surveillance". They've started spying on EVERYONE, and the positive feedback loop will only make it increase. Sure, the NSA (and the US gubment in general) has a PR problem about this at present, but simply driving the surveillance back underground, where they think it belongs anyways will put an end to that. Then all they have to do is wait for the American attention span to make the rest of the problem go away. The loss to ostensibly American (but really stateless multi-national) companies (Boeing, et al.) will only be temporary. Meanwhile, every technologically advanced state and corporation on the planet is harvesting as much data as they can, just to a lesser extent. Remember: boil the frog SLOWLY.
If you really want to work against the problem, don't attack it piecemeal (NSA spying, TSA overreach, federal spit collectors, chilling effects, etc.). Go after the REAL cause of the problem, this amorphous concept of a "War on Terror", and the stated objective to "keep us all safe". When your goal is something THAT ill-defined and nebulous, and you've got something as egregious as the PATRIOT Act in hand, well, repeat after me, "I love Big Brother".