Whoops, you missed the joke. And you'll look like a moron to anyone who can't see the sig of the GP. You should have at least said "re: your sig" or something similar, so that people know what you're talking about. The sig, for future readers, currently reads
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Yeah, it's obviously a joke. Which begs the question, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
The reason people think that "begs the question" means "raises the question" is because it's a fucking stupid idiom which has nothing to do with questions at all. Apparently a stupid Englishman mistranslated some Latin 500 or so years ago.
Approximately 2/5 (two fifths!) of sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays! Obviously the implication is that the slack workers aren't really sick, but are taking the day off to coincide with the weekend!
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I'm not going to book surgery on any day other than a Wednesday. Unless I want to die I guess.
My doctor says it's ok to talk to myself, so long as I untie her first. The thing is, I told myself to tie her up because I'm worried she wants to get rid of me. I like me, and I don't want to die. And she wants to kill me so that I don't have to worry about talking to me.
I think I'll go and untie her now. I think I'll leave her tied up.
Which idiot mod modded this troll? I see not only nothing trollish about it, but actually it's perfectly relevant both to thread and the general topic.
So what exactly does this scam, spam, fraud "currency" offer that bitcoin doesn't? Forget the technical implementation details (scrypt vs sha256), those are irrelevant for use. What makes it better as a currency?
Any additional deflationary cryptocurrency is redundant, as Bitcoin does everything!
Only if you had a slightly inflationary currency would it be worth looking at, as an alternative to Bitcoin.
I suspect that you're "pumping" this 'coin', and then you'll sell it for a profit. It doesn't matter whether you really truly believe it is valuable or not; or whether you'll continue to use it after the "dump". The point is, at this stage, the only reason to start a new deflationary chain is to make a profit. And you should be upfront with your motives.
Yeah, except that Bitcoin a) already had a community using it and trading with it before it hit/., b) Bitcoin, being the original, is the best. All the rest look like scams and frauds to me. Someone comes along, promotes their new fancy chain, and then sells out (to stupid idiots who believed the hype by and large, not being able to see that it's useless). None of these alt-chains actually offers anything better than Bitcoin (except for one or two that have built in infinite inflation, as opposed to Bitcoin's eventual deflation).
Can't handle a little bit of stuff (is it too much stuff?) in just a few (or is it too many) parenthesis? I bet you would hate Lisp if you ever used it. Besides, I didn't even nest parenthesis in that post. (ESR[1] says that hackers tend to nest parenthesis when writing (like this). I do that, and I'm not even a hacker.) Anyway, how is it an abuse? I'm just using them as intended (to mark an area of text that could be removed, and the rest of the text would still make sense).
Last time I posted on the issue I made the point that the pragmatic approach was for the W3C to reject any attempt to have it have anything to do with digital restrictions management tech. Why? Because they gain nothing from it except ire from people who truly want an open web. DRM is the exact opposite of open, and can't be implemented in an open fashion. It is a misguided principle (everything should be on the open web), that is behind this push. Except that the principle, while nice and all, is actually wrong in this case. DRM and the open web cannot work together.
Um, it's not a web without JS. It's a web with JS that is Free, just like my OS. Think about Gmail (because it's been in the news recently, I still don't know why anyone continues to use it). It has loads of JS. And it's all non-Free. You can't legally take it and modify it and make it nicer and work better for you. Greesemonkey scripts that interact with the Gmail JS are probably illegal, because they are a derivative work, and you don't have permission. And you can't distribute your scripts either.
Think about it a little before running off your mouth.
Well, except that all the useful variable and function names are gone. There are no comments. And, you know, I think it's not nearly as useful as it would be to just have the original code in the first place... Minified JS is closer to compiled source than you think. The preferred version to edit is not the deassembled version, but the original with all the nice variable and function names etc.
Your post is almost totally plausible. Where it particularly falls down though is that Japanese doesn't have any conception of capital and lower case letters. The kanji are just Chinese characters (by and large), and the kana only have one form for most (there are small versions of some kana, but they play a different role in words to the large versions, unlike in English where the capitals still play the same role in the word, but affect grammar). (Though there are two types of kana, the point still stands.) And smashing the keyboard to get dictionaries is funny. I had to think about it for a bit, and you know, it's still plausible. But, build the dictionaries from the home row keys I think. (Most of my "random" passwords have asfd in them.)
And of course the trouble with using spaces and non-latin chars in your passwords is that many systems just don't accept them. Or accepts them when initially entering your password, but silently fails; so you end up not knowing what your password is, because the system has converted the Japanese kanji to something weird, and then doesn't do the same conversion for login.
Yes, except that we all know it's really easy to get the main form of the email address from that. And not all systems accept a plus in an email address. And basically it's a cludge, when there is simply a better way to do it. Even the Yahoo way is better (you pick a prefix (e.g. makingwaves-) and then you can make additional email addresses of the form prefix-suffix, e.g. makingwaves-slashdot.org@yahoo.com), because there is no way to infer the main email address. (Though you do have to make the addresses ahead of time, unlike with a catch-all domain, or the Google option.)
In case you didn't get it. I am opposed to racism, and I never advocated killing all the Jews. Just the government.
And regardless of history, the fact remains that the current Israeli government does a lot of things that the Nazi German government did too. Like, govern. Oh, and looking for extra living space. And pretend like their people are the chosen people, and therefore have the rights to clear the bit of land they want of the people currently living there.
But no country has no blood on its hands. So let's do away with them altogether.
The biggest problem is that the Israeli government continues to expand the borders of "Israel". All these settlements? Those are government sanctioned or supported, or government "turned a blind eye to"'d.
No, let me correct myself. The biggest problem is the lack of anarchism and freedom the world over. Shoot the bosses. Eat the rich. Skim the scum.
I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people here on/. have been saying about "bring your own device". You know, "it's mine, and I don't want corp. IT to tell me how to use it, or what software to have on it, or to be able to remotely delete everything on it". And, "why should I have to pay for company equipment? If it's for work, they can pay".
Gee, who'd'a' thunk it?
In other news, a smug Linux user commented that Linux doesn't crash nearly as often as M$ Windoze does. And, moreover, the GIMP is a more than sufficient replacement for Photoshop for most casual users.
Wait, I get it. Gmail sucks balls, and they are trying to make it slightly less sucky. I don't use Google for much at all (OpenStreetMaps for maps was the last major thing; apart from the occasional search when other systems don't hack it, and even then Google's getting worse). I use my own hosted email. It has folders. And, if I use IMAP and bring it down to my computer, I can use virtual folders and get all the benefits of Gmail labels. Without Google ever reading the email in my inbox.
You'd almost think that receiving large quantities of email from known senders was a solved problem. Oh wait, it is a solved problem. They are called filters. You can filter mail: from senders (e.g. you-stupid-user@facebook.com); to addresses (e.g. you can give a different address to every site & company (e.g. slashdot.org.2013.may.29@example.com, assuming you own example.com and considering you can get domains for $2 a year, it's easy to own your own domain); based on subject line (e.g. if it's got [BEST SCAT PORN] in the subject); etc. You filter them into different folders, and then you deal with each folder as you like. Some folders you'll just regularly delete (e.g. maybe all the Facebook junk). Some you'll mark as read, without actually reading. Some you'll scan the subject lines. And some you can open up individually and read (e.g. the scat porn).
Filters, they work. (They may not work with Google Mail, but would mean you should get your own bloody mail system.)
Meh, I don't even know what NFL is. I don't drive (I ride). Nachos are nice I guess, but there's better food (and it's not nachos). I don't use deodorant, I share daily. I get laid only sometimes. And I wear climbing boots in the machine room, because you can never be sure that a mountain won't spring up out of the floor.
I do get pissed off by geeks being elitist and saying that others (including girls and women) aren't geeks because they don't like the 'right' thing, or don't watch the 'right' thing. Geeks are varied. By saying you have to watch TV, you not only get rid of people like me, but you get rid of various other geeks who also don't like TV, but are huge geeks all the same.
Personally I think the Israeli government should be lined up against the wall they're building. And shot. We can then line up the leaders of the various Palestinian groups, and shoot them as well. And then take out the various Israeli party heads. And for an encore, we can shoot all the leaders of all the major corporations, and all the states of all the world!
HOW ABOUT A BIT OF ANARCHY AND FREEDOM AROUND HERE THEN?!
Yeah, sorry, but obviously the answer is Vim. Nano, Pico and similar are obviously not good options, they are sort of like Notepad, limited and just a little brain-dead. Moreover, Vi is required part for a system to be POSIX compliant. So, learning Vi (and you can quickly learn the direction keys by playing a little Nethack) will mean that you'll always have an editor on a Unix system.
Why the fuck should I turn in my "geek card"?! Because I grew up reading rather than watching (there wasn't even a TV in the house half my childhood, and when there was (which wasn't a continues stretch, but more, 1 year on, 1 year off sort of thing) it was incapable of getting more than three or four channels, none of which would have shown American SciFi? (Funny, we had at least one computer in the house for most of my childhood though.) Or because I still prefer a good book? You know there are loads of sorts of geeks right. Next you'll be telling me that I'm not a geek 'cause I've never bothered to watch even a single episode of Star Trek. (I got that once from someone who wasn't a geek.)
Books: SF&F (mainly SF), computers & programming, gaming: RPG and table-top (if there was a group around), and other geeky pursuits are more than sufficient to mean I'll be keeping my "geek card" thank you very much! (Yeah, it was a joke. I know.)
I guess I'll watch a little B5, just to see whether I think I'd appreciate it.
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Whoops, you missed the joke. And you'll look like a moron to anyone who can't see the sig of the GP. You should have at least said "re: your sig" or something similar, so that people know what you're talking about.
The sig, for future readers, currently reads
Yeah, it's obviously a joke. Which begs the question, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?
The reason people think that "begs the question" means "raises the question" is because it's a fucking stupid idiom which has nothing to do with questions at all. Apparently a stupid Englishman mistranslated some Latin 500 or so years ago.
Approximately 2/5 (two fifths!) of sick days are taken on Mondays and Fridays! Obviously the implication is that the slack workers aren't really sick, but are taking the day off to coincide with the weekend!
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I'm not going to book surgery on any day other than a Wednesday. Unless I want to die I guess.
My doctor says it's ok to talk to myself, so long as I untie her first. The thing is, I told myself to tie her up because I'm worried she wants to get rid of me. I like me, and I don't want to die. And she wants to kill me so that I don't have to worry about talking to me.
I think I'll go and untie her now. I think I'll leave her tied up.
Which begs the question, are you really truly a gigantic dick, or are you just a turd?
You're an ugly fucker and you smell funny. Also, I think you really should have that rash looked at.
PS You're going to die alone and lonely.
Heh, the idiot mod went and gave me a -1 flamebait as well. I've got karma to burn.
Which idiot mod modded this troll? I see not only nothing trollish about it, but actually it's perfectly relevant both to thread and the general topic.
So what exactly does this scam, spam, fraud "currency" offer that bitcoin doesn't? Forget the technical implementation details (scrypt vs sha256), those are irrelevant for use. What makes it better as a currency?
Any additional deflationary cryptocurrency is redundant, as Bitcoin does everything!
Only if you had a slightly inflationary currency would it be worth looking at, as an alternative to Bitcoin.
I suspect that you're "pumping" this 'coin', and then you'll sell it for a profit. It doesn't matter whether you really truly believe it is valuable or not; or whether you'll continue to use it after the "dump". The point is, at this stage, the only reason to start a new deflationary chain is to make a profit. And you should be upfront with your motives.
Yeah, except that Bitcoin a) already had a community using it and trading with it before it hit /., b) Bitcoin, being the original, is the best. All the rest look like scams and frauds to me.
Someone comes along, promotes their new fancy chain, and then sells out (to stupid idiots who believed the hype by and large, not being able to see that it's useless).
None of these alt-chains actually offers anything better than Bitcoin (except for one or two that have built in infinite inflation, as opposed to Bitcoin's eventual deflation).
Can't handle a little bit of stuff (is it too much stuff?) in just a few (or is it too many) parenthesis? I bet you would hate Lisp if you ever used it. Besides, I didn't even nest parenthesis in that post. (ESR[1] says that hackers tend to nest parenthesis when writing (like this). I do that, and I'm not even a hacker.)
Anyway, how is it an abuse? I'm just using them as intended (to mark an area of text that could be removed, and the rest of the text would still make sense).
[1] http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/HackerWritingStyle.html
Last time I posted on the issue I made the point that the pragmatic approach was for the W3C to reject any attempt to have it have anything to do with digital restrictions management tech. Why? Because they gain nothing from it except ire from people who truly want an open web. DRM is the exact opposite of open, and can't be implemented in an open fashion.
It is a misguided principle (everything should be on the open web), that is behind this push. Except that the principle, while nice and all, is actually wrong in this case. DRM and the open web cannot work together.
So, yeah, pragmatism for the win.
Um, it's not a web without JS. It's a web with JS that is Free, just like my OS.
Think about Gmail (because it's been in the news recently, I still don't know why anyone continues to use it). It has loads of JS. And it's all non-Free. You can't legally take it and modify it and make it nicer and work better for you. Greesemonkey scripts that interact with the Gmail JS are probably illegal, because they are a derivative work, and you don't have permission. And you can't distribute your scripts either.
Think about it a little before running off your mouth.
Well, except that all the useful variable and function names are gone. There are no comments. And, you know, I think it's not nearly as useful as it would be to just have the original code in the first place... Minified JS is closer to compiled source than you think. The preferred version to edit is not the deassembled version, but the original with all the nice variable and function names etc.
Your post is almost totally plausible. Where it particularly falls down though is that Japanese doesn't have any conception of capital and lower case letters. The kanji are just Chinese characters (by and large), and the kana only have one form for most (there are small versions of some kana, but they play a different role in words to the large versions, unlike in English where the capitals still play the same role in the word, but affect grammar). (Though there are two types of kana, the point still stands.)
And smashing the keyboard to get dictionaries is funny. I had to think about it for a bit, and you know, it's still plausible. But, build the dictionaries from the home row keys I think. (Most of my "random" passwords have asfd in them.)
And of course the trouble with using spaces and non-latin chars in your passwords is that many systems just don't accept them. Or accepts them when initially entering your password, but silently fails; so you end up not knowing what your password is, because the system has converted the Japanese kanji to something weird, and then doesn't do the same conversion for login.
Yes, except that we all know it's really easy to get the main form of the email address from that. And not all systems accept a plus in an email address. And basically it's a cludge, when there is simply a better way to do it. Even the Yahoo way is better (you pick a prefix (e.g. makingwaves-) and then you can make additional email addresses of the form prefix-suffix, e.g. makingwaves-slashdot.org@yahoo.com), because there is no way to infer the main email address. (Though you do have to make the addresses ahead of time, unlike with a catch-all domain, or the Google option.)
In case you didn't get it. I am opposed to racism, and I never advocated killing all the Jews. Just the government.
And regardless of history, the fact remains that the current Israeli government does a lot of things that the Nazi German government did too. Like, govern. Oh, and looking for extra living space. And pretend like their people are the chosen people, and therefore have the rights to clear the bit of land they want of the people currently living there.
But no country has no blood on its hands. So let's do away with them altogether.
The biggest problem is that the Israeli government continues to expand the borders of "Israel". All these settlements? Those are government sanctioned or supported, or government "turned a blind eye to"'d.
No, let me correct myself. The biggest problem is the lack of anarchism and freedom the world over. Shoot the bosses. Eat the rich. Skim the scum.
I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people here on /. have been saying about "bring your own device". You know, "it's mine, and I don't want corp. IT to tell me how to use it, or what software to have on it, or to be able to remotely delete everything on it". And, "why should I have to pay for company equipment? If it's for work, they can pay".
Gee, who'd'a' thunk it?
In other news, a smug Linux user commented that Linux doesn't crash nearly as often as M$ Windoze does. And, moreover, the GIMP is a more than sufficient replacement for Photoshop for most casual users.
Wait, I get it. Gmail sucks balls, and they are trying to make it slightly less sucky.
I don't use Google for much at all (OpenStreetMaps for maps was the last major thing; apart from the occasional search when other systems don't hack it, and even then Google's getting worse). I use my own hosted email. It has folders. And, if I use IMAP and bring it down to my computer, I can use virtual folders and get all the benefits of Gmail labels. Without Google ever reading the email in my inbox.
You'd almost think that receiving large quantities of email from known senders was a solved problem. Oh wait, it is a solved problem.
They are called filters. You can filter mail: from senders (e.g. you-stupid-user@facebook.com); to addresses (e.g. you can give a different address to every site & company (e.g. slashdot.org.2013.may.29@example.com, assuming you own example.com and considering you can get domains for $2 a year, it's easy to own your own domain); based on subject line (e.g. if it's got [BEST SCAT PORN] in the subject); etc.
You filter them into different folders, and then you deal with each folder as you like. Some folders you'll just regularly delete (e.g. maybe all the Facebook junk). Some you'll mark as read, without actually reading. Some you'll scan the subject lines. And some you can open up individually and read (e.g. the scat porn).
Filters, they work. (They may not work with Google Mail, but would mean you should get your own bloody mail system.)
Meh, I don't even know what NFL is. I don't drive (I ride). Nachos are nice I guess, but there's better food (and it's not nachos). I don't use deodorant, I share daily. I get laid only sometimes. And I wear climbing boots in the machine room, because you can never be sure that a mountain won't spring up out of the floor.
I do get pissed off by geeks being elitist and saying that others (including girls and women) aren't geeks because they don't like the 'right' thing, or don't watch the 'right' thing. Geeks are varied. By saying you have to watch TV, you not only get rid of people like me, but you get rid of various other geeks who also don't like TV, but are huge geeks all the same.
Personally I think the Israeli government should be lined up against the wall they're building. And shot. We can then line up the leaders of the various Palestinian groups, and shoot them as well. And then take out the various Israeli party heads. And for an encore, we can shoot all the leaders of all the major corporations, and all the states of all the world!
HOW ABOUT A BIT OF ANARCHY AND FREEDOM AROUND HERE THEN?!
Yeah, sorry, but obviously the answer is Vim. Nano, Pico and similar are obviously not good options, they are sort of like Notepad, limited and just a little brain-dead. Moreover, Vi is required part for a system to be POSIX compliant. So, learning Vi (and you can quickly learn the direction keys by playing a little Nethack) will mean that you'll always have an editor on a Unix system.
Yeah!
Thanks for the opinions.
<joke>I'm trying to use the command line more, which is the better editor, Vim or Emacs?</joke>
Why the fuck should I turn in my "geek card"?! Because I grew up reading rather than watching (there wasn't even a TV in the house half my childhood, and when there was (which wasn't a continues stretch, but more, 1 year on, 1 year off sort of thing) it was incapable of getting more than three or four channels, none of which would have shown American SciFi? (Funny, we had at least one computer in the house for most of my childhood though.) Or because I still prefer a good book? You know there are loads of sorts of geeks right. Next you'll be telling me that I'm not a geek 'cause I've never bothered to watch even a single episode of Star Trek. (I got that once from someone who wasn't a geek.)
Books: SF&F (mainly SF), computers & programming, gaming: RPG and table-top (if there was a group around), and other geeky pursuits are more than sufficient to mean I'll be keeping my "geek card" thank you very much! (Yeah, it was a joke. I know.)
I guess I'll watch a little B5, just to see whether I think I'd appreciate it.