there's no good reason to keep it secret other than the government wanting to keep hidden that which they'd prefer the public not see.
Which is precisely why it's all secret, because they are getting up to shit that would have the public up in arms (literally). It took Edward Snowden stealing documents and making a run for it to even start making all the crap they are up to public knowledge. Even after what he revealed the American sheeple are standing around going "oh, well, it's for our safety" and nothing has changed. Edward still can't come home.
Where I live this would result in @ss hats sitting in the middle of the road. It happens all the time when they resurface the road and have not repainted the lines. Since each job is contracted out the contract to paint the lines could be still getting bribes... I mean *incentives* and can sometimes lag up to six months after the road is resurfaced. During that time lots of people just drive smack bang in the middle and sometimes you have to hug the side of the road to get past them, and then they give YOU a dirty look like you were on their side of the road.
Can't mod you any higher, so I will just like to say I agree. Mod or Post, not both./.'s moderation system is the best I have encountered out there, not to say it does not have some downsides (certain types of posts get -1 modded into oblivion regardless of their actual value) but it's the best I have come across.
Bullshit, you have been arming the "moderate" rebels for years, who either defect to ISIS or hand the weapons over to ISIS. Gaddaffi used to be your ally until you turned on him and bombed the living shit out of his country. How water treatment plants and power stations are military targets I still haven't figured out. America's democracy is a joke, no matter who you vote in, all you are changing is the puppet in front of the camera's. Why the hell did you invade Iraq when the "mastermind" behind 9/11 was in Afghanistan? Oil.
Strictly speaking we didn't cause the fire.
Yes you did, with your meddling in their politics, funding and arming "freedom fighters" which is a small disgruntled minority you can find in ANY country to further your own political and financial agenda's. Drone strikes have created more radical extremists then anything else you have done. If I was at a wedding and you dropped a bomb on it because my nephew Yusuf once dialled a wrong number and is now linked to a terrorist group I would be pretty fucking radical after that.
Sure we removed the fire department and we struck the match
So why the fuck did you even do THAT? Their biggest issue has always been America meddling in their affairs, the problem is your economy is driven by war, you keep bloody starting them (although you suck at ending them - and I don't agree with that list either, you lost the Korean war). America has been around about 236 years, and for 214 years of that you have been at war. Around 90% of the time.
So it's really not our fault...
Yes, yes it is.
I also love how any critical posts of the USA get modded into oblivion. See you on -1 side.
Heh, did this myself. You give me a server on the other side of the firewall and I will get through it. Firewalls are for stopping id10t's from watching cat videos all day. At one point I didn't want to expose any ports on my home network so I wrote a program to check my gmail every 5 minutes. I could send an email to my home email and give my home pc instructions to do stuff, download this, zip it up and mail it to xyz. Eventually I just shelled out some bucks for a cheap ass virtual server somewhere, the lag in the email thing got up my nose. But basically if you allow internet access (even just email) and get in people who are competent you better get people you can trust. To be honest that can be said for all IT work, if you don't trust the guys digging around in your database / code you are screwed.
It may do, but I worked for a company specializing in and could not work for another company which specialized in for two years afterwards. Something I can completely understand, they did not want me running off with insider knowledge of and going to one of their competitors. So in certain circumstances I understand why it's in contracts.
Since the Caliphate by definition wants to take over the rest of the world, this option really doesn't help for ISIS.
So you invaded first to stop them? Just in case they decided to stop fighting amongst each other long enough to actually become a threat?
Or did you want the oil?
The only way there will be peace in the middle east is when it becomes a glass bowl, otherwise every war there is going to be a terrorist war, which suck. I've lived through one, it's not fun. Stop letting your corporations lead your country around by the nose and forget the oil, pour all the trillions you wasted dropping bombs and then food into the middle east into other forms of energy and you would not need the oil. BTW it would have been more effective to drop the food first, then one bomb.
Whilst I agree with you, I fear that the number of bookstores will dwindle, until you get "speciality" bookshops only. Just a sign of the times I'm afraid. I myself gave most of my books to charity when I last moved, smaller place, cost too much to pack them for moving. I only kept my absolute favourites. I get a warm fuzzy feeling walking into a library etc. but you have to agree that soon no one would open a book shop to make a living. BTW that's what I plan to do when I retire, open a bookshop to keep me occupied and active.
'per geography' distribution models are starting to crack
It's an old archaic method of licensing and should be scrapped entirely, just like video stores and bookshops are dying out because they have become obsolete. We are a global village now, and it's about time the media cartels pulled their collective heads out of each others asses and smelled the roses.
Look I don't play sports games much (or more like at all) but a friend does and was complaining about how they are all the FIFA's are the bloody same. Slightly better graphics and an updated player list is all that the new release really brings to the (ahem) field. Just Cause 3 I bought shortly after it came out and it's good fun, someone I know who does not have any spare cash to hand (at least not for a game I suppose) was also complaining about there being no pirate version out as yet, just the usual douchebag fake torrent with a password.
I like the idea of the laser broom my self, although instead of it being ground based it can be in orbit with some nice fat solar panels for power. I would imagine most of a ground based system would lose it's energy getting out of the atmosphere, but if it was visible to the naked eye it would be cool to watch.
I disagree, they have basically stolen the word - most "nerds" nowadays have pretty active social lives. Just because they happen to spend it gaming with friends and watching youtube videos or whatever does not make them real nerds. The real nerds are still out there, social inept and spending their free time coding or whatever, they are probably called dorks now or something. I imagine in another 20 years or so all the cool kids will want to be called dorks and the real dorks will feel as annoyed as I do about having my title hijacked. I worked hard to earn that title thank you, I mean most of the "nerds" can't even code ffs!
I can't help thinking that since space is already full of crap that this will simply hasten the occurance of a Kessler Syndrome type scenario. Although I suppose if it's cheaper to get up there we might actually start doing something about all the junk instead of just monitoring it and holding thumbs. There has been talk for years about refueling satellites instead of shoving them into a higher orbit and discarding them, cheaper launches will mean it's cheaper to just plonk another, more advanced one, in it's place.
Sigh, this gets trotted out every year, usually by a fvcking web developer who couldn't be bothered to learn anything else.
The reason there are still apps is because they fill a very needed niche. Try write a web app that you can use out in the middle of nowhere without internet access, or worse intermittant or VERY SLOW internet access. Ontop of that the web app has every framework and kludge thrown in to make it look like an app and what you get is a very very frustrated user, who will drop your web offering and go with someone who bothered to write an app.
So a nice small idylic town gets turned into a big ass sunlight reflecting glass bowl. Yeah, I wouldn't want to live there. The fact that you find that somehow attractive speaks volumes about you and your neighbors.
How is 1 million ridiculously high when his life is now in danger and he has to walk around armed?
His business reputation (even if he wins) is now in ruins. He will have to rename the company and start build clients again from scratch, PERHAPS a few of his steady clients will understand and move to the new business, but a lot will simply pick another plumber.
Agreed, I have pretty much bought every XBox and PS console (except XBox one, it was never officially released here) and I took one look at the latest generation of consoles and went meh? I'll stick with my PC thanks. Add to that every time my house gets broken into (and yes I have moved around, crime is just really high in the country I live in) they always take the consoles, they never steal my PC. They steal the monitors and UPS but they always leave the case behind. Also they never steal the Wii for some reason? So yeah, the current batch of consoles held such a low appeal that I haven't bothered with them. Also console exclusives eventually come out on PC anyway, might take a year or two but generally they are ported at some point.
The lack of evidence showing that encrypted communications played a role in either the Paris attacks, which killed 129 people, or the San Bernardino shooting, which killed 14 people, has not deterred law enforcement, who believe the technology is making their job more difficult and Americans less safe.
So they didn't encrypt anything, and all the spying being done on EVERYONE didn't help or provide any clues that the attacks were going to happen. So lets pass a law on encryption, because then we would have known? How the fuck does anyone even think that's a logical fucking argument.
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Which is precisely why it's all secret, because they are getting up to shit that would have the public up in arms (literally). It took Edward Snowden stealing documents and making a run for it to even start making all the crap they are up to public knowledge. Even after what he revealed the American sheeple are standing around going "oh, well, it's for our safety" and nothing has changed. Edward still can't come home.
Where I live this would result in @ss hats sitting in the middle of the road. It happens all the time when they resurface the road and have not repainted the lines. Since each job is contracted out the contract to paint the lines could be still getting bribes... I mean *incentives* and can sometimes lag up to six months after the road is resurfaced. During that time lots of people just drive smack bang in the middle and sometimes you have to hug the side of the road to get past them, and then they give YOU a dirty look like you were on their side of the road.
Can't mod you any higher, so I will just like to say I agree. Mod or Post, not both. /.'s moderation system is the best I have encountered out there, not to say it does not have some downsides (certain types of posts get -1 modded into oblivion regardless of their actual value) but it's the best I have come across.
Yes you did, with your meddling in their politics, funding and arming "freedom fighters" which is a small disgruntled minority you can find in ANY country to further your own political and financial agenda's. Drone strikes have created more radical extremists then anything else you have done. If I was at a wedding and you dropped a bomb on it because my nephew Yusuf once dialled a wrong number and is now linked to a terrorist group I would be pretty fucking radical after that.
So why the fuck did you even do THAT? Their biggest issue has always been America meddling in their affairs, the problem is your economy is driven by war, you keep bloody starting them (although you suck at ending them - and I don't agree with that list either, you lost the Korean war). America has been around about 236 years, and for 214 years of that you have been at war. Around 90% of the time.
Yes, yes it is.
I also love how any critical posts of the USA get modded into oblivion. See you on -1 side.
Heh, did this myself. You give me a server on the other side of the firewall and I will get through it. Firewalls are for stopping id10t's from watching cat videos all day. At one point I didn't want to expose any ports on my home network so I wrote a program to check my gmail every 5 minutes. I could send an email to my home email and give my home pc instructions to do stuff, download this, zip it up and mail it to xyz. Eventually I just shelled out some bucks for a cheap ass virtual server somewhere, the lag in the email thing got up my nose. But basically if you allow internet access (even just email) and get in people who are competent you better get people you can trust. To be honest that can be said for all IT work, if you don't trust the guys digging around in your database / code you are screwed.
It may do, but I worked for a company specializing in and could not work for another company which specialized in for two years afterwards. Something I can completely understand, they did not want me running off with insider knowledge of and going to one of their competitors. So in certain circumstances I understand why it's in contracts.
I would mod up if I had any points, thank you for an interesting read.
So you invaded first to stop them? Just in case they decided to stop fighting amongst each other long enough to actually become a threat?
Or did you want the oil?
The only way there will be peace in the middle east is when it becomes a glass bowl, otherwise every war there is going to be a terrorist war, which suck. I've lived through one, it's not fun. Stop letting your corporations lead your country around by the nose and forget the oil, pour all the trillions you wasted dropping bombs and then food into the middle east into other forms of energy and you would not need the oil. BTW it would have been more effective to drop the food first, then one bomb.
But hey, let's rather jump to conclusions, since this is slashdot and everything.
Sure the air is fine, couldn't be better, who the fuck want's to live till they are 70 and still be able to blow out birthday candles.
Whilst I agree with you, I fear that the number of bookstores will dwindle, until you get "speciality" bookshops only. Just a sign of the times I'm afraid. I myself gave most of my books to charity when I last moved, smaller place, cost too much to pack them for moving. I only kept my absolute favourites. I get a warm fuzzy feeling walking into a library etc. but you have to agree that soon no one would open a book shop to make a living. BTW that's what I plan to do when I retire, open a bookshop to keep me occupied and active.
It's an old archaic method of licensing and should be scrapped entirely, just like video stores and bookshops are dying out because they have become obsolete. We are a global village now, and it's about time the media cartels pulled their collective heads out of each others asses and smelled the roses.
Same could be said for the USA, stop starting more wars already.
Look I don't play sports games much (or more like at all) but a friend does and was complaining about how they are all the FIFA's are the bloody same. Slightly better graphics and an updated player list is all that the new release really brings to the (ahem) field. Just Cause 3 I bought shortly after it came out and it's good fun, someone I know who does not have any spare cash to hand (at least not for a game I suppose) was also complaining about there being no pirate version out as yet, just the usual douchebag fake torrent with a password.
I like the idea of the laser broom my self, although instead of it being ground based it can be in orbit with some nice fat solar panels for power. I would imagine most of a ground based system would lose it's energy getting out of the atmosphere, but if it was visible to the naked eye it would be cool to watch.
I disagree, they have basically stolen the word - most "nerds" nowadays have pretty active social lives. Just because they happen to spend it gaming with friends and watching youtube videos or whatever does not make them real nerds. The real nerds are still out there, social inept and spending their free time coding or whatever, they are probably called dorks now or something. I imagine in another 20 years or so all the cool kids will want to be called dorks and the real dorks will feel as annoyed as I do about having my title hijacked. I worked hard to earn that title thank you, I mean most of the "nerds" can't even code ffs!
Or some ass hat would mix all the matter and antimatter together at once.
I can't help thinking that since space is already full of crap that this will simply hasten the occurance of a Kessler Syndrome type scenario. Although I suppose if it's cheaper to get up there we might actually start doing something about all the junk instead of just monitoring it and holding thumbs. There has been talk for years about refueling satellites instead of shoving them into a higher orbit and discarding them, cheaper launches will mean it's cheaper to just plonk another, more advanced one, in it's place.
Sigh, this gets trotted out every year, usually by a fvcking web developer who couldn't be bothered to learn anything else.
The reason there are still apps is because they fill a very needed niche. Try write a web app that you can use out in the middle of nowhere without internet access, or worse intermittant or VERY SLOW internet access. Ontop of that the web app has every framework and kludge thrown in to make it look like an app and what you get is a very very frustrated user, who will drop your web offering and go with someone who bothered to write an app.
So a nice small idylic town gets turned into a big ass sunlight reflecting glass bowl. Yeah, I wouldn't want to live there. The fact that you find that somehow attractive speaks volumes about you and your neighbors.
How is 1 million ridiculously high when his life is now in danger and he has to walk around armed?
His business reputation (even if he wins) is now in ruins. He will have to rename the company and start build clients again from scratch, PERHAPS a few of his steady clients will understand and move to the new business, but a lot will simply pick another plumber.
Agreed, I have pretty much bought every XBox and PS console (except XBox one, it was never officially released here) and I took one look at the latest generation of consoles and went meh? I'll stick with my PC thanks. Add to that every time my house gets broken into (and yes I have moved around, crime is just really high in the country I live in) they always take the consoles, they never steal my PC. They steal the monitors and UPS but they always leave the case behind. Also they never steal the Wii for some reason? So yeah, the current batch of consoles held such a low appeal that I haven't bothered with them. Also console exclusives eventually come out on PC anyway, might take a year or two but generally they are ported at some point.
So they didn't encrypt anything, and all the spying being done on EVERYONE didn't help or provide any clues that the attacks were going to happen. So lets pass a law on encryption, because then we would have known? How the fuck does anyone even think that's a logical fucking argument.
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.u...
A good book, might be a bit hard to find nowadays, uh, nevermind found it on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Fairylan...
Basically people hacking genomes to create new drugs to get high on (and other stuffs) been a while since I read it.
WTF! It looks like an Ironclad from the civil war.