No it's not discrimination, its asinine generalization.
People seem to think that X group of people behave in certain ways or have certain scruples or lack thereof. People are fucking people. There are assholes next door, there are assholes in China, there are wonderful people next door and there are wonderful people in China.
Blocking huge (huge = countries) is indescriminate at best.
You can block individual IPs. I mean there are only about 4.2 billion. There are more people in the world than that; large percentage of which aren't send you spam, viruses, or trying to hack you.
But if you want to indescriminately block large blocks of IPs by all means go ahead, censor yourself.
I don't think it's a good idea to be pumping billions of tons of anything into the atmosphere, and that should get slowed down a little.
Forgive me for playing the devil's advocate, but maybe we should all stop breathing then.
You make a good point though. For all I know CO2 is good for global cooling. Therefore I don't run my mouth about what we should or shouldn't be doing. We used to think all forest fires were bad. Now we know that they're a normal (if infrequent) part of the life of the forest.
Boy have you been taking all the propaganda to heart!
Go watch Fahrenheit 911.
Funny how no one ever asks why the terrorists knocked down the WTC. I read somewhere it was because of our meddling in their affairs. (sorry I can't cite, don't recall) Of course I don't think blowing up the towers was the answer, but did it ever cross your mind that if we just stayed out of their business they'd stop blowing our shit up? They can't kill more of our troops if our troops aren't on that side of the globe either! The events on 911 were in reaction to US foreign policy. You'll never see CNN/Fox say WHY the attack took place, just how horrible it was and how bad the terrorists are.
Do you not realize how BIG the orbital space up there is?
volume of earth = 1,083,000,000,000 cubic kilometers volume of geostationary orbit = 190,500,000,000,000 * 10^14 cubic kilometers volume of geostationary orbit - earth volume = 189,500,000,000,000 cubic kilometers
You're more likely to win the lottery about 10 times in a row than two pieces of space junk to collide that weren't released together.
I'd always wondered about that myself. How come NASA never seemed to take any precautions against space junk, even with astronauts floating about with nothing protecting them but a space suit. It's simple, the odds of getting hit by anything we put up there are fucking astronomically low. Only astronomers deal with such huge numbers and long odds.
My ex-gf never rewarded elegant solutions to problems with so much of a kiss, unless of course it was her problem, and even then it was as much because she wanted to as any kind of reward.
We just need space sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
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Yeah something is definitely broken.
I have my threshold set for 3 and I'm seeing like (1) 3+ comment out of 150 comments. Not normal at all. Even yesterday's articles are doing it today (and weren't yesterday).
What the fuck is congress doing making laws that benefit massive coroprations at the expense of the fucking citizens? And then trying to inflict them on other countries?!
I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.*
*"There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now." - Ed Howdershelt
I seriously doubt this guy was killed just for spamming, but let's assume he was for discussion. While on the surface it may seem that the punishment (death) far exceeds the crime (spamming) let's do a little math.
Say I spend 10 seconds managing my spam every 2-3 days. That's 28 seconds a week. No big deal right?
Say I've been doing it for the last 5 years and will continue to for the next 55.
(5 + 55) * 52 weeks * 28 seconds a week = 87,360 seconds (24.266~ hours). Still not that bad, just one day.
Someone who lives 80 years only gets 700,800 hours to live.
That means spammers only have to annoy 28,879 people ( 700,800 / 24.266~ = 28,879 ) before they've wasted an entire (long) human lifetime worth of time. Now I know it's a bit of a stretch to equate a human lifetime worth of time to the life of an actual human being, but I begin to wonder. My time is very valuable to me and I'd rather not waste a single second of it deleting unwanted advertisements from my inbox.
But let's take it a little further. According to this there are 6,454,864,470 people on earth at the time of this writing. Say spammers only annoy 5% of them (a low estimate I would guess) for their entire lives. That's still 322,743,223 people who lost a day's time to spam.
24.266 hours per person * 322,743,223 people = 7831902223.6 hours wasted.
That's 11,175.66 human lifetimes!
If you want to equate those to actual deaths here are some comparisons:
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. No, this is not a joke: kill yourself . . . I know what the marketing people are thinking now too: 'Oh. He's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market.' Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags.
I couldn't agree more.
From TFA:
We know the 17 to 34 audience, the male audience, is elusive and quite difficult to reach through traditional broadcast.... It is incumbent upon us to find ways to reach them," says Gerry Rich, president of world-wide marketing for Paramount Pictures.
Fuck you Gerry Rich. It's not incumbent on you to reach me. I want you to leave me the fuck alone and keep your god damn ads out of my face. I will never pay for any video game that I know beforehand has full motion ads in it.
I think you almost hit the mark. I can only speak for myself (and perhaps throw myself to the wolves in the process) but I find I'm not particularly attracted to females that are drastically different from Anglo-Saxon. I can look at a beautiful say.....black woman and see that she is indeed beautiful. But I'm not usually attracted to her. It's like looking at a fine work of art or other thing of beauty that doesn't inspire primal urges. I can appreciate her beauty without my baser instincts firing to say "ATTEMPT TO MATE!"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not racist. In fact in moving to VA I find the higher percentage of non-white folks refreshing and believe that interracial breeding will generally make better humans.
Just like "pure bred" dogs typically have horribly high tendencies to have breed-specific problems whereas mutts whose component breeds aren't even discernible live much longer and healthier. This coming from a guy who grew up in areas with lots of "pure bred" humans. *shudder*
However, in closing I wouldn't say racism is speciation. Racism is irrational, ignorant, stupid dislike of other races. Speciation is more what I'm talking about. How some people aren't attracted to other races may cause it among humans.
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Umm *LOTS* of cameras have IR filters.
In fact there are several websites devoted to removing the IR filter from a webcam so it can be used as a "night vision" camera.
For example. Hell, here's a article about it.
Yes you can still see the IR from a remote control in cameras with the filter, but try it with the filter removed.
And if you'd RTFA or even just the blurb here you'd know that it finds cameras with IR but blinds them with visible light.
Ladies and gentlemen it has finally happened.
Slashdot has slashdotted itself.*
*Ok, so slashdot slashdotted www.slashcode.com. Slash slash slash......slash
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No it's not discrimination, its asinine generalization.
People seem to think that X group of people behave in certain ways or have certain scruples or lack thereof. People are fucking people. There are assholes next door, there are assholes in China, there are wonderful people next door and there are wonderful people in China.
Blocking huge (huge = countries) is indescriminate at best.
You can block individual IPs. I mean there are only about 4.2 billion. There are more people in the world than that; large percentage of which aren't send you spam, viruses, or trying to hack you.
But if you want to indescriminately block large blocks of IPs by all means go ahead, censor yourself.
Excuse me?! MARKET?
If you find the fucking cure for AIDS you'd best not be trying to fucking profit from it.
You make a good point though. For all I know CO2 is good for global cooling. Therefore I don't run my mouth about what we should or shouldn't be doing. We used to think all forest fires were bad. Now we know that they're a normal (if infrequent) part of the life of the forest.
So set the swamp on fire?
You know you can interperet things as a joke without seeing a +X funny moderation. ;-)
fuck, my watch and children. (Note the comma! (I don't have children anyway))
Boy have you been taking all the propaganda to heart!
Go watch Fahrenheit 911.
Funny how no one ever asks why the terrorists knocked down the WTC. I read somewhere it was because of our meddling in their affairs. (sorry I can't cite, don't recall) Of course I don't think blowing up the towers was the answer, but did it ever cross your mind that if we just stayed out of their business they'd stop blowing our shit up? They can't kill more of our troops if our troops aren't on that side of the globe either! The events on 911 were in reaction to US foreign policy. You'll never see CNN/Fox say WHY the attack took place, just how horrible it was and how bad the terrorists are.
Don't take my word for it, do your own research.
Do you not realize how BIG the orbital space up there is?
volume of earth = 1,083,000,000,000 cubic kilometers
volume of geostationary orbit = 190,500,000,000,000 * 10^14 cubic kilometers
volume of geostationary orbit - earth volume = 189,500,000,000,000 cubic kilometers
You're more likely to win the lottery about 10 times in a row than two pieces of space junk to collide that weren't released together.
I'd always wondered about that myself. How come NASA never seemed to take any precautions against space junk, even with astronauts floating about with nothing protecting them but a space suit. It's simple, the odds of getting hit by anything we put up there are fucking astronomically low. Only astronomers deal with such huge numbers and long odds.
Come again?
The military I'll buy, but sex?
Last I checked innovation never got me laid.
My ex-gf never rewarded elegant solutions to problems with so much of a kiss, unless of course it was her problem, and even then it was as much because she wanted to as any kind of reward.
Does any -border- itself have any intrinsic value? No.
You see it's Canada that is worthless, and therefore unguarded.
We just need space sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
Yeah something is definitely broken.
I have my threshold set for 3 and I'm seeing like (1) 3+ comment out of 150 comments. Not normal at all. Even yesterday's articles are doing it today (and weren't yesterday).
What a bunch of fucking bullshit!!!
What the fuck is congress doing making laws that benefit massive coroprations at the expense of the fucking citizens? And then trying to inflict them on other countries?!
I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.*
*"There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now." - Ed Howdershelt
Why did he wait until IE7 to call for a boycott?
Internet Exploder has been a piece of shit since 5.0 and possibly earlier (I just didn't realize it until I discovered Firefox).
Or is he just trying to draw attention to himself?
But they do place restrictions on service packs which contain tons of updates.
Because I'm at work and there is no TV available?
Your knock-off drill isn't causing other (even genuine) DeWalt drills around the world to short out, explode or seize up.
Tried to watch it launch live via space.com but was getting about 8b/s on the live feed. Works great now that it doesn't fucking matter.
I seriously doubt this guy was killed just for spamming, but let's assume he was for discussion. While on the surface it may seem that the punishment (death) far exceeds the crime (spamming) let's do a little math.
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Say I spend 10 seconds managing my spam every 2-3 days. That's 28 seconds a week. No big deal right?
Say I've been doing it for the last 5 years and will continue to for the next 55.
(5 + 55) * 52 weeks * 28 seconds a week = 87,360 seconds (24.266~ hours). Still not that bad, just one day.
Someone who lives 80 years only gets 700,800 hours to live.
That means spammers only have to annoy 28,879 people ( 700,800 / 24.266~ = 28,879 ) before they've wasted an entire (long) human lifetime worth of time. Now I know it's a bit of a stretch to equate a human lifetime worth of time to the life of an actual human being, but I begin to wonder. My time is very valuable to me and I'd rather not waste a single second of it deleting unwanted advertisements from my inbox.
But let's take it a little further. According to this there are 6,454,864,470 people on earth at the time of this writing. Say spammers only annoy 5% of them (a low estimate I would guess) for their entire lives. That's still 322,743,223 people who lost a day's time to spam.
24.266 hours per person * 322,743,223 people = 7831902223.6 hours wasted.
That's 11,175.66 human lifetimes!
If you want to equate those to actual deaths here are some comparisons:
"British Medial Journal indicating that passive smoking kills over 11,000 people in UK." (http://www.sdlp.ie/pr2march2005.shtm).
"To take prostate cancer as an example, although it kills over 11,000 men a year..." (http://www.icr.ac.uk/press/releases/cancerchip.h
"Gun violence kills over 11,000 Americans every year..." (http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/1
These were extremely low estimates, the world's population is growing, and the amount of spam is growing.
Still think the punishment didn't fit the crime? I'm not sure anymore myself.
"some" marijuana could be 4 metric tons for all we know.
I couldn't agree more.
From TFA:
Fuck you Gerry Rich. It's not incumbent on you to reach me. I want you to leave me the fuck alone and keep your god damn ads out of my face. I will never pay for any video game that I know beforehand has full motion ads in it.
I think you almost hit the mark. I can only speak for myself (and perhaps throw myself to the wolves in the process) but I find I'm not particularly attracted to females that are drastically different from Anglo-Saxon. I can look at a beautiful say.....black woman and see that she is indeed beautiful. But I'm not usually attracted to her. It's like looking at a fine work of art or other thing of beauty that doesn't inspire primal urges. I can appreciate her beauty without my baser instincts firing to say "ATTEMPT TO MATE!"
Don't get me wrong, I'm not racist. In fact in moving to VA I find the higher percentage of non-white folks refreshing and believe that interracial breeding will generally make better humans.
Just like "pure bred" dogs typically have horribly high tendencies to have breed-specific problems whereas mutts whose component breeds aren't even discernible live much longer and healthier. This coming from a guy who grew up in areas with lots of "pure bred" humans. *shudder*
However, in closing I wouldn't say racism is speciation. Racism is irrational, ignorant, stupid dislike of other races. Speciation is more what I'm talking about. How some people aren't attracted to other races may cause it among humans.