there's a difference between the olden days when some random passer-by or a lone person with a camera might see or record your undies on the line.
This is the 21st century, now we have hunter-killer blimps cruising around, taking pictures every five feet and recording everything for posterity. And to make matters worse, it all gets put into cyberspace where everbody with access to a computer willbe looking at it and compulsively stroking one out like some sort of bloodshot-eyed gibbon in a Skinner box.
(ok, maybe I exagerate a little for effect. But I have the facts essentially correct.)
Flapping her underwear around like a flag in public, tramp. Apparently she's all right with all the local boys eyeballing her dainties. But draws the line at some gaijin interweb pervert getting cheap thrills at her expense.
Hey, this is Japan, we're talking about. Fukuoka, even.
Wow. I wonder how many weeks that part of the class takes?
As opposed to what...other dimensions or parallel universes?
Dammit, keep your mouth shut, man!
They don't get to learn that until they've forked over their $30 registration fee, completed the OT Programmer III auditing and have been shown the secret handshake!
Honestly, don't they teach the traditional courses any more at you programmer's temple? What's your badge prefix number?!
Claims of governments, sadly, now lately, even the United States government, behaving thusly are not extraordinary.
Actually, the Swedish government is probably actually doing Assange a favor by keeping him off the streets so some CIA sub-contractor doesn't scoop him up in a white van and rendition his translucent white ass off to some secret prison in Violateyourrightsistan. Hell, that's how'd I'd deal with the situation if I had the job. And I wouldn't bother making any faux denials of involvement, so any other like-minded people get the message.
and I'm a supporter of government transparency in general.
I'm beginning to suspect the Mythbusters intentionally blow it once in a while just to give the geeks something to argue about. That gets them more buzz.
But that's the point of metagovernment. How can they stop a distributed, leaderless, international, net-based movement? By imprisoning everyone in the world?
"won't somebody please help me, a dingo stole my packet!"
Consensus seems to be appointing a knowledgeable minster or whatever they have over there would resolve the problem. Instead they got some dummo with a political agenda to push.
Now I've got a itch to write a fanfic expanding on Heinlien's "All You Zombies" where every single character is himself in each and every one of the seven classic plotlines. I wonder if I can get John Malkovich to star in the movie version.
I really don't see why so many people are crapping on "The Last Starfighter". Sure, its plot was formulaic, but at least, unlike Tron, it had a plot. It's a damn fine B movie, and fun to boot. Granted, the at the time groundbreaking use of CGI now looks klunky as hell.
They could easily re-release Starfighter with updated effects, like they did with ST:TOS. The only way to fix Tron is to turn off the sound a burn a J. (But then you miss out on Wendy Carlos' score).
1. company A is sold to company B 2. admin jumps ship for a less crappy job 3. company C disassembles company B in a hostile takeover, and sells off the bloody parts 4. admin quits 5. hardware sits in a rack somewhere, forgotten 6. admin quits 7. clueless newb hired as servermonkey 8. servermonkey makes a hash of things 9. server monkey promoted to management 10. company sold to GM 11. company sold off from GM 12. new owners can't track down password for server, cross their fingers and hope the problem disappears 13. sever needs critical security patch and the company support 14. their own phone rings, THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!
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there's a difference between the olden days when some random passer-by or a lone person with a camera might see or record your undies on the line.
This is the 21st century , now we have hunter-killer blimps cruising around, taking pictures every five feet and recording everything for posterity. And to make matters worse, it all gets put into cyberspace where everbody with access to a computer will be looking at it and compulsively stroking one out like some sort of bloodshot-eyed gibbon in a Skinner box.
(ok, maybe I exagerate a little for effect. But I have the facts essentially correct.)
Flapping her underwear around like a flag in public, tramp.
Apparently she's all right with all the local boys eyeballing her dainties.
But draws the line at some gaijin interweb pervert getting cheap thrills at her expense.
Hey, this is Japan , we're talking about. Fukuoka, even.
"learn to use hyperlinks"
Wow. I wonder how many weeks that part of the class takes?
As opposed to what...other dimensions or parallel universes?
Dammit, keep your mouth shut, man!
They don't get to learn that until they've forked over their $30 registration fee, completed the OT Programmer III auditing and have been shown the secret handshake!
Honestly, don't they teach the traditional courses any more at you programmer's temple? What's your badge prefix number?!
Claims of governments, sadly, now lately, even the United States government, behaving thusly are not extraordinary .
.
Actually, the Swedish government is probably actually doing Assange a favor by keeping him off the streets so some CIA sub-contractor doesn't scoop him up in a white van and rendition his translucent white ass off to some secret prison in Violateyourrightsistan. Hell, that's how'd I'd deal with the situation if I had the job. And I wouldn't bother making any faux denials of involvement, so any other like-minded people get the message
and I'm a supporter of government transparency in general.
I have a hard time envisioning an autistic rising to such a high rank in SPECTRE.
Assange is a millionaire ?
oh, wait, reading comprehension -- at different times...
obviously someone who's never gotten his hands dirty in a physics lab
I'm beginning to suspect the Mythbusters intentionally blow it once in a while just to give the geeks something to argue about. That gets them more buzz.
conversely, maybe the parallel will wake up more people to what a farce this war on terror(tm) is. hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
Is truth not truth for all? -- Natira, "For the World is Hollow and I have Touched the Sky", stardate 5476.4.
Man, what a trollapalooza this story's gonna be - a story by a troll submitted by a troll, about a troll.
meh, you proles would've just squandered your peace dividend on frivolous stuff like health care, education and infrastructure.
But that's the point of metagovernment. How can they stop a distributed, leaderless, international, net-based movement? By imprisoning everyone in the world?
They're busily working on that.
It would be more sensitive to have a exhibit to commemorate the victims of COBOL and it's eventual glorious defeat.
Word users should be severely punished
"won't somebody please help me, a dingo stole my packet!"
Consensus seems to be appointing a knowledgeable minster or whatever they have over there would resolve the problem. Instead they got some dummo with a political agenda to push.
Now I've got a itch to write a fanfic expanding on Heinlien's "All You Zombies" where every single character is himself in each and every one of the seven classic plotlines. I wonder if I can get John Malkovich to star in the movie version.
I really don't see why so many people are crapping on "The Last Starfighter". Sure, its plot was formulaic, but at least, unlike Tron, it had a plot. It's a damn fine B movie, and fun to boot. Granted, the at the time groundbreaking use of CGI now looks klunky as hell.
They could easily re-release Starfighter with updated effects, like they did with ST:TOS. The only way to fix Tron is to turn off the sound a burn a J. (But then you miss out on Wendy Carlos' score).
"Teriffic. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax. "
I miss JonKaz.
/. really should have a telethon to upgrade him to an Amiga.
Wait, no I don't.
Although I'd like to see a follow-up on how Junis is faring in Afghanistan these days.
it's a remake of the freakin' Bible -- creator of the universe's right-hand man wants to be in charge and needs to be taken down
sweet jibbering jeebus, first this The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords , then Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays, now this?!!
A more likely scenario:
1. company A is sold to company B
2. admin jumps ship for a less crappy job
3. company C disassembles company B in a hostile takeover, and sells off the bloody parts
4. admin quits
5. hardware sits in a rack somewhere, forgotten
6. admin quits
7. clueless newb hired as servermonkey
8. servermonkey makes a hash of things
9. server monkey promoted to management
10. company sold to GM
11. company sold off from GM
12. new owners can't track down password for server, cross their fingers and hope the problem disappears
13. sever needs critical security patch and the company support
14. their own phone rings,
THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!
true story.
no, I thought, gee, that's what Freeside could look like. I wish they'd get their shit together and do a decent adaptation of Neuromancer.
only if the velociraptor wins...
I wonder if anyone used Chuck Norris thinks Netscape engineers are weenies, he has the _NSAKEY
tiresomely obligatory XKCD reference