Slashdot doesn't like me, It loves pushing me down with the Karma scores.
So I don't take being modded -1 or 0 personally any longer.
And yeah, i get the sense it was originally written in the US first, and a really bad translation occurred to Spanish.
I spent a year south of the Mexican border just recently, and came to learn just how much google translate and the textbooks flat out have it so crazy wrong with translation lately. I was in effect re-learning Spanish to some degree.
The document states they would like to make it illegal to modify or distribute the contents of computers that are not your own without permission of the owner. This applies specifically to problems they have had with computers being taken to local repair shops and nude pictures being obtained from the computer and then being distributed on the local web sites.
The document also states that modifying any contents online or off of someone else's information/data in degrading or disparaging ways without their express permission would be a prosecuteable offense based on the nature and severity of the crime.
They specifically named public servants because of crony capitalism corruption issues throughout Latin America, but the law would be applicable to everyone.
I, personally, do not see this as a bad thing.
I'm not sure where you're interpreting the whistleblower thing.
Are you referring to the part that states no reward will be given to those who turn in individuals who are caught doing this?
There's a reason for this: They don't want it to become a blackmail market or to lead to people being framed or extorted for profit.
Wow did Google drop the ball on that translation.
I see this as legislation that the United States might want to consider. Or at least keep an eye on Mexico to see how this pans out. We're sorely in need of protecting individual rights and this is a potential experiment that might benefit us.
I've been out of IT for about 4 years, and am homeless, quite frankly because I just got tired of programming.
I once had a guy I worked with as a consultant who for 3 months time adjusted indentation in the files and took smoke breaks and picked up on the women in the call center next door.
Now I know the man is to be envied.
If ANYONE offered me the opportunity to just screw with their employees mentally like this guy did and do practical jokes when I felt like it.
I would IN A SECOND take that job offer.
Unfortunately, every job requisition I receive has a list of requirements which makes it feels like watching paint drying would be more fun.
Having this 'tool' in the arsenal of potential crazy dream jobs that ask me to simply screw with management is sincerely. just. too. cool. for words.
When entropic observers measure entropic systems not understanding how their entropic mindset influences their results, I have a difficult time taking any scientific evidence as plausible.
If you're thinking within the box, then i would agree.
You didn't get the part where Einstein said reality's an illusion, did you?
If I coded up a computer game shopping aisle with 100 different types of jelly to choose from, the only effort on my part is naming them and placing a different logo on the bottle. But I could automate that with not horribly sophisticated algorithms.
A couple years I had a mental breakdown - not in small part I believe due to my mind being overwhelmed with choices based on paranoia.
With so many things to 'fear', from walking across the border to Mexico and being shot to drinking a cup of milk that wasn't manufactured with healthy processes, my mind literally became overwhelmed and that manifested in a surreal experience into the crazy things the mind is capable of doing when overwhelmed like that.
How i came out of it was simple; Choice IS a good thing. Whether it's your choice of what to get to eat on a McDonald's menu, or jellies and hams, who to marry and become involved with, where to travel on vacation, or the deodorant you wear with those choice gym clothes you bought.
These choices distinguish us, help shape our individuality, our tastes - and the very lives we lead.
But there's a problem when you do what I did - which is personally mismanage my choices. I didn't know that 99% of marketing - particularly fear based marketing was based on shoddy evidence and invalid science. And that's if there was any science or evidence gathering involved at all. i didn't know that credible sources on the internet are largely fabricated, and that most 'support' evidence to entice us to make 'better' or 'more informed' choices is nothing more than spin, much like a news reporter spins a story to 'sell it'
What I learned through it all was - when you have firm short and long term goals. Choice is relatively easy and becomes an 'embedded' mechanism in every decision you make, quickly weeding through the sales and marketing efforts to lock in on that one shirt I want out of thousands to choose from and quite literally be in and out within 4 minutes while most women are scratching their heads. Same thing for soap. For dish at a Chinese food restaurant.
HOWEVER. if you let fear based marketing in. You'll doubt every choice.
Don't buy into the fear. Buy into the desire and let the choice make itself.
The 'results' of the choices I now make quickly have fundamentally changed my entire life and I lost all my previous friends.
You have GOT to be committed to personal change when managing choice on your own.
We have a lot of people who live in their vehicles in the Los Angeles area as well.
We call them homeless.
Google's trying it's darndest to romanticize and spin the difficult situations it's putting people in.
I work out of Starbuck's on a daily basis programming a video game. Don't have to slave for a company such as Google. I sleep in a tent to keep my costs down, if someone donates (which I NEVER ask for) - I'll have a can of stew from the 99 cent store.
And I see other people living in cars who 'shower' at the park's public restroom, while others may get a membership to LA Fitness just for the shower.
Information technology companies like Google need to become more responsible for their employee's residential living situation. When lack of choice leads to unemployment or underemployment by companies such as Google who repeatedly attempts to spin the situation it places it's employees in to make it look good, Houston, we have a problem of lack of Corporate Social Responsibility for the health and well being of the people who work for you.
I speak up often on these boards about these kind of situations, where born and raised Americans are pushed to the street - and manipulated corporate environments such as Google punish people like me for speaking up. You can tell the Hindu 'sacrifice' influence and 'Karma' because of my lack of obedience to your established norms. It's sad, when you punish me with the proverbial 'terrible' karma for speaking out about the travesty the H1bs are bringing by their presence and mindset here in the United States.
Watch how quickly I get thumbs down for this, or negative numbers and ratings I get. It's downright predictable, how I - as an 'untouchable' citizen in the United States - similar to the untouchable class in India - is sadly how they left the state of their own economy.
And Google's now their tool to wash rinse and repeat this same pattern until they've devastated the entire world.
Having spent time in China myself, I'm indifferent about it.
China and the United States have 'depended' on eachother since the mid 1980's and this has dramatically effected both cultures. As we venture into space, commercially and militarily - aligning with China may make things easier from a budget perspective, but from a culturally respective perspective - there's some massive drawbacks to a full on partnership.
I regard the space race as being in it's true infancy from a travel and tourism perspective, and for me, i look forward to - no - i delight in the unique possibilities a unique culture such as China brings to the table without US influence - and vice versa.
Sure. Financially and fiscally. It's certainly more cost effective, But let's be honest here.
With the exception of the Space Shuttle, every rocket the United States and even Russia and now India is creating looks like a giant dildo. We're leveraging the same scientific advancements and perspectives, the same machinery and engineering, and the same scientific processes to achieve the same goal.
As a citizen - I'm a fan of choice. So when my only options for space based activities are based on science and engineering developed by one single country and then shared with all the rest with minor deviations, where, really - are my choices? I choose an original or a derivative, but invariably I have no real choice.
Personally. I'd say no about including China on the space ventures.
And say "Let's meet in space, you develop your own methods to get there"
But that is if I happened to be in charge of anything but the tent and backpack and homeless lifestyle this isolationist thinking has led to.
First and foremost, Star Trek is not devoid of money or a form of currency, there's something called energy credits which is mentioned throughout the series as people grab things from replicators and discuss energy ration allotments and limitations for what they can obtain.
Second, Nowhere is this more obvious than with the very popular exchange based gambling games such as Dabo where Gold Pressed Latinum - the favorite of the Ferrengi - can be exchanged for items and for energy rations. Watch Deep Space 9 throughout the series and you'll see the inferences and the scarcity through supply and demand of these exchanges.
Now the last Enterprise does not carry 'money' per se, they carry commodities which have a par value for money.
This works almost precisely like our economy does now other than we're more liquid in form.
One last thing to note: Star Trek vessels and their hierarchy function almost exactly like the US military. There's a top down leadership which will have you thrown in the brig if you don't do as commanded. There's a supply for pretty much everything you want on the US military bases which - while they haven't shown the barber's chair or the clothing exchange in an episode, you can assume there's functions like this on the standard starship.
With that said. The means of exchange is clearly energy credits.
How's this not a currency, not money?
IF the people you're talking to knew anything about the Star Trek universe they'd know it's a socialist economy and while they don't call them dollars, the energy credits are still an item of value and a means for exchange. .
Years back, I advocated purchasing google hardware which was actually a full fledged index search system which integrated their search mechanisms into hardware and allowed it to sit on a 'backbone' of the network to - on a periodic basic, crawl the entire network and index the entire thing.
The outcome: You'd be able to do google keyword searches and actually work the priority and details of the search yourself, and the results would come up in a single search screen.
Now clearly this is a little different than what you're asking for - a single consolidated point of entry for all information in a system. if you can 'contain' your information, force your users to only supply information in the format you require - which many corporations do - then you can roll your own information management system - pick your language of choice for this and leverage a SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL backend for the data store and for the front end - you have any number of options including customized clients (with client/server programming) or n-tier web like designs.
Wiki is fairly unique in that it's fairly free form, but not without it's issues. it's still highly structured, is a language in itself, and reinforces group think.
Personally. I've gotten to be a fan of indexed services and compartmentalization. it's safer that way, easier to manage the compartments, and easier to customize without pissing off an entire constituency.
There is. But it's funny no matter what comment I contribute, I get marked down for the Karma. As if someone from India truly believes it's going to matter.
Personally, I think the hackers are bored. Misdirected. And if you were to watch the Borg from Star Trek, it's hard not to draw an analogy to the Borg's relentless pursuit consuming biology and technology - but for no real reason - which begs the question "What is the purpose?".
Oh I know, I know. You hackers love seeing 'pwned by so-and-so'
It's like a leaderboard on a video game, right? The more you see your name in highlights, the more points you score?
To what end? i mean. Did you really win any games?
We all know you have the ability to infiltrate pretty much any system and circumvent anything, anywhere. You've proven that much already.
But me. Being a pseudo hacker, not a real one, I just like pretending to be but in all honesty I am a novice...
I can't help but ask.
Once you've caused anarchy. Brought it all down. What next?
You're top of the poo pile now, CEO of dog poo, and with all the money in the world - you are now in charge of rebuilding the poo infrastructure because life, quite frankly, was better and you enjoyed not having to watch your back which was there with the lifestyle that was in place before you started tearing it all down.
But can you see past your own poo to know there's something your crazy mad skills as hackers and security experts can offer this world?
Can you see past your own poo to realize there's more you can do with your skills than defense and offense?
Can you see past your own poo to realize you - as a collective community - can actually make people feel good with your skills? That you can help someone who's had a bad day? That you can right wrongs?
Or are you that insecure and does your ego need stroking constantly and are you incapable of doing these things without recognition, and as a result, you choose to rip apart the society you hold in such contempt?
I see great things being possible for all hackers.
But not as long as you're unwilling to make the conscious choice to help rather than harm with those skills.
And if you're legitimate with your skills working in security, intelligence, or something of the like.
As long as you're ascribing to the mental story that you are defending those in need, you're only going to be playing a never ending giant game of whack a mole.
Look, speaking on behalf of any corporation. Sometimes, YES, there's absolutely planned obsolescence in products. But truth be told, with so many consumer choices out there, this doesn't happen to the frequency it used to.
In the case of this man's $12 fix.
What I crack up at nowadays is how lazy people are at research lately.
"Why didn't Samsung tell me about the $12 fix" that's their job and responsibility
Is it possible that they didn't know?
Like Kim Davis not granting marriage certificates in Kentucky, some assert that if she wasn't going to hand out certificates - then it was "her responsibility to tell those seeking marriage certificates where to go to get them if she wasn't going to do it herself"
Samsung not having immediate information on how to resolve a problem they created by their presence. Kim Davis not being able to resolve other's problems problem she created by her choice.
I'm proud of this man for learning how to research his own answer.
As a viewer. Up until about 8 years ago, I had very little to choose from in variation of tv and movie entertainment options.
In a general sense, the 'major players' had become extremely predictable.
Every summer, movies 'blockbuster' movies would come out with either robots, superheroes, or aliens - or a variation of the theme.
And television shows - generally featured the equivalent of 'Friends' spun any which way.
Sure, there's been gems here and there. Futurama and the Simpsons which last quite a while. Then there's wonderful exceptions such as Angel, Firefly, Doctor Who and Star Trek. But more often than not, it seems like these shows are cancelled as fast as the executives can get their grubby mitts into it by introducing gun battles and cowboys versus indians and "scary monster crap" to eventually kill the show.
It's almost as if this is a calculated counter measure the producers and writers take on these shows to kill them. .
Now though. and for a few years, there's more intelligent and diverse entertainment options arriving and too much for any one critic or mindless executive to control and kill. Whether it's original entries like Dexter or Mr Robot, or it's a derivation of a theme, it's refreshing to have so many entertainment options that have not been dissected by these people who just can't keep up with the options.
To the creative types introducing the wonderful variety of entertainment starting to be offered.
I say increase the supply.
And I want to see more superhero, alien, and villain, space explorer and time traveler comedies and love stories.
There's more to life than head shots and reusing the same recipes over and over again without introducing new spices to the mix.
The internet is becoming a wonderful resource for fiction and stories, but as a credible source of information it is quickly unbecoming.
Personally, I have avoided wikipedia for about a year now because of revisionist history - it seems as though there are those from outside the United States who would prefer manipulating the public consciousness and this wikipedia is one tool they leverage to that end.
On numerous occasions, I have attempted to make edits - and quickly get someone from India who's banning my edits.
There's no real recourse against this, and these 'power users' - so rather than even mess with it or worry about it anymore, I view it as but one perspective of many, and in this case, a limited and wholly inaccurate view of the world.
Wikipedia is in a tough position. It's confronted with alternate realities directly, and manipulation accordingly - and some of us are simply not wanting to contribute or 'play this game' any longer because there's so many people convinced multiple realities is a theory to pick and choose from.
What would be cool is if there was an alternate version of wikipedia for every reality.
Boy i cannot wait for the flames from the misfiring neurons who don't understand this and call me crazy for the way I see the world!!
There's absolutely no reason he can't have two lifestyles. One living as a regular joe in a suburban house driving a regular car. This lifestyle can be used for dating and others where it's more important to maintain a low profile. Maybe new potential endeavors or getting to know new people.
And the other in his mansion. with the yacht.
Sometimes it's easier pretending to be two or more different people than being one and being torn in a hundred different directions because you ultimately know people will want to use you for what you have, and finding substance in our relationships becomes the most important thing in life.
Speaking personally, I perceive the universe as only being in existence 45 years in total.
Now sure, I understand there's historical and scientific 'evidence' to suggest that it's been around longer. But for me, through provable and personally verifiable science, I cannot reliably prove through repeatable tests that gravity moved at a constant speed nor the speed of light moved at a constant speed prior to my coming into existence. Since I do not have the capability to time travel, I am incapable of proving anything prior to my birth.
That's simple rational logic.
So to me - The Big Bang I do NOT doubt happened 13.8 billions years ago for someone else in an alternate reality (which alternate realities I personally have proof of that works for me), but to me in this reality, the big bang is merely one historical story of this planet's inception - of which there are, in my mind, literally infinite potential stories to be told.
So of course some perceive the big bang length of time being less.
I mean, this is a no-brainer application of Einstein's Relativity, and the observer bias, is it not?
With two degrees, and 30 years of IT experience, I am now homeless and out of work for three years thanks to H1B workers.
Now they can statistically attempt to 'spin' this any which way they like. But the simple fact of the matter is. Most of the Americans I know in IT are unemployed or underemployed, their jobs going to lower cost H1B workers who have replaced us.
Which is fine by me. I always wanted to learn to hack better, and I have been inspired by video games called "Thief" - that maybe, it's these people who have no concern for those they are replacing, that we'll simply go to their houses, and take their belongings.
I mean. What are they going to do - put a homeless person in jail and feed me, clothe me, and give me a bed?
Lol. not gonna happen. I'll be back on the street the next day doing the same thing.
Sorry, I call bullshit. Those 'unskilled' positions are killing opportunties for the educated and experienced for who knows what reason.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot doesn't like me, It loves pushing me down with the Karma scores.
So I don't take being modded -1 or 0 personally any longer.
And yeah, i get the sense it was originally written in the US first, and a really bad translation occurred to Spanish.
I spent a year south of the Mexican border just recently, and came to learn just how much google translate and the textbooks flat out have it so crazy wrong with translation lately. I was in effect re-learning Spanish to some degree.
The Google translation is completely wrong.
The document states they would like to make it illegal to modify or distribute the contents of computers that are not your own without permission of the owner. This applies specifically to problems they have had with computers being taken to local repair shops and nude pictures being obtained from the computer and then being distributed on the local web sites.
The document also states that modifying any contents online or off of someone else's information/data in degrading or disparaging ways without their express permission would be a prosecuteable offense based on the nature and severity of the crime.
They specifically named public servants because of crony capitalism corruption issues throughout Latin America, but the law would be applicable to everyone.
I, personally, do not see this as a bad thing.
I'm not sure where you're interpreting the whistleblower thing.
Are you referring to the part that states no reward will be given to those who turn in individuals who are caught doing this?
There's a reason for this: They don't want it to become a blackmail market or to lead to people being framed or extorted for profit.
Wow did Google drop the ball on that translation.
I see this as legislation that the United States might want to consider. Or at least keep an eye on Mexico to see how this pans out. We're sorely in need of protecting individual rights and this is a potential experiment that might benefit us.
My bet is this is Yik Yak's PR marketing, knowing full well UCLA won't respond to this, and hopefully driving traffic their way.
*yawn*.
There's community standards. But there's no anti free speech movement, Yik Yak.
Give me a break.
I've learned the hard way to quit thinking things I cannot imagine possible with the way I learn is impossible for others.
So yes, I think it's quite possible these schools are not selling snake oil.
This is so fracking hilarious!
I've been out of IT for about 4 years, and am homeless, quite frankly because I just got tired of programming.
I once had a guy I worked with as a consultant who for 3 months time adjusted indentation in the files and took smoke breaks and picked up on the women in the call center next door.
Now I know the man is to be envied.
If ANYONE offered me the opportunity to just screw with their employees mentally like this guy did and do practical jokes when I felt like it.
I would IN A SECOND take that job offer.
Unfortunately, every job requisition I receive has a list of requirements which makes it feels like watching paint drying would be more fun.
Having this 'tool' in the arsenal of potential crazy dream jobs that ask me to simply screw with management is sincerely. just. too. cool. for words.
Thanks!
When entropic observers measure entropic systems not understanding how their entropic mindset influences their results, I have a difficult time taking any scientific evidence as plausible.
If you're thinking within the box, then i would agree.
You didn't get the part where Einstein said reality's an illusion, did you?
If I coded up a computer game shopping aisle with 100 different types of jelly to choose from, the only effort on my part is naming them and placing a different logo on the bottle. But I could automate that with not horribly sophisticated algorithms.
A couple years I had a mental breakdown - not in small part I believe due to my mind being overwhelmed with choices based on paranoia.
With so many things to 'fear', from walking across the border to Mexico and being shot to drinking a cup of milk that wasn't manufactured with healthy processes, my mind literally became overwhelmed and that manifested in a surreal experience into the crazy things the mind is capable of doing when overwhelmed like that.
How i came out of it was simple; Choice IS a good thing. Whether it's your choice of what to get to eat on a McDonald's menu, or jellies and hams, who to marry and become involved with, where to travel on vacation, or the deodorant you wear with those choice gym clothes you bought.
These choices distinguish us, help shape our individuality, our tastes - and the very lives we lead.
But there's a problem when you do what I did - which is personally mismanage my choices. I didn't know that 99% of marketing - particularly fear based marketing was based on shoddy evidence and invalid science. And that's if there was any science or evidence gathering involved at all. i didn't know that credible sources on the internet are largely fabricated, and that most 'support' evidence to entice us to make 'better' or 'more informed' choices is nothing more than spin, much like a news reporter spins a story to 'sell it'
What I learned through it all was - when you have firm short and long term goals. Choice is relatively easy and becomes an 'embedded' mechanism in every decision you make, quickly weeding through the sales and marketing efforts to lock in on that one shirt I want out of thousands to choose from and quite literally be in and out within 4 minutes while most women are scratching their heads. Same thing for soap. For dish at a Chinese food restaurant.
HOWEVER. if you let fear based marketing in. You'll doubt every choice.
Don't buy into the fear. Buy into the desire and let the choice make itself.
The 'results' of the choices I now make quickly have fundamentally changed my entire life and I lost all my previous friends.
You have GOT to be committed to personal change when managing choice on your own.
We have a lot of people who live in their vehicles in the Los Angeles area as well.
We call them homeless.
Google's trying it's darndest to romanticize and spin the difficult situations it's putting people in.
I work out of Starbuck's on a daily basis programming a video game. Don't have to slave for a company such as Google. I sleep in a tent to keep my costs down, if someone donates (which I NEVER ask for) - I'll have a can of stew from the 99 cent store.
And I see other people living in cars who 'shower' at the park's public restroom, while others may get a membership to LA Fitness just for the shower.
Information technology companies like Google need to become more responsible for their employee's residential living situation. When lack of choice leads to unemployment or underemployment by companies such as Google who repeatedly attempts to spin the situation it places it's employees in to make it look good, Houston, we have a problem of lack of Corporate Social Responsibility for the health and well being of the people who work for you.
I speak up often on these boards about these kind of situations, where born and raised Americans are pushed to the street - and manipulated corporate environments such as Google punish people like me for speaking up. You can tell the Hindu 'sacrifice' influence and 'Karma' because of my lack of obedience to your established norms. It's sad, when you punish me with the proverbial 'terrible' karma for speaking out about the travesty the H1bs are bringing by their presence and mindset here in the United States.
Watch how quickly I get thumbs down for this, or negative numbers and ratings I get. It's downright predictable, how I - as an 'untouchable' citizen in the United States - similar to the untouchable class in India - is sadly how they left the state of their own economy.
And Google's now their tool to wash rinse and repeat this same pattern until they've devastated the entire world.
Having spent time in China myself, I'm indifferent about it.
China and the United States have 'depended' on eachother since the mid 1980's and this has dramatically effected both cultures. As we venture into space, commercially and militarily - aligning with China may make things easier from a budget perspective, but from a culturally respective perspective - there's some massive drawbacks to a full on partnership.
I regard the space race as being in it's true infancy from a travel and tourism perspective, and for me, i look forward to - no - i delight in the unique possibilities a unique culture such as China brings to the table without US influence - and vice versa.
Sure. Financially and fiscally. It's certainly more cost effective, But let's be honest here.
With the exception of the Space Shuttle, every rocket the United States and even Russia and now India is creating looks like a giant dildo. We're leveraging the same scientific advancements and perspectives, the same machinery and engineering, and the same scientific processes to achieve the same goal.
As a citizen - I'm a fan of choice. So when my only options for space based activities are based on science and engineering developed by one single country and then shared with all the rest with minor deviations, where, really - are my choices? I choose an original or a derivative, but invariably I have no real choice.
Personally. I'd say no about including China on the space ventures.
And say "Let's meet in space, you develop your own methods to get there"
But that is if I happened to be in charge of anything but the tent and backpack and homeless lifestyle this isolationist thinking has led to.
First and foremost, Star Trek is not devoid of money or a form of currency, there's something called energy credits which is mentioned throughout the series as people grab things from replicators and discuss energy ration allotments and limitations for what they can obtain.
Second, Nowhere is this more obvious than with the very popular exchange based gambling games such as Dabo where Gold Pressed Latinum - the favorite of the Ferrengi - can be exchanged for items and for energy rations. Watch Deep Space 9 throughout the series and you'll see the inferences and the scarcity through supply and demand of these exchanges.
Now the last Enterprise does not carry 'money' per se, they carry commodities which have a par value for money.
This works almost precisely like our economy does now other than we're more liquid in form.
One last thing to note: Star Trek vessels and their hierarchy function almost exactly like the US military. There's a top down leadership which will have you thrown in the brig if you don't do as commanded. There's a supply for pretty much everything you want on the US military bases which - while they haven't shown the barber's chair or the clothing exchange in an episode, you can assume there's functions like this on the standard starship.
With that said. The means of exchange is clearly energy credits.
How's this not a currency, not money?
IF the people you're talking to knew anything about the Star Trek universe they'd know it's a socialist economy and while they don't call them dollars, the energy credits are still an item of value and a means for exchange. .
Years back, I advocated purchasing google hardware which was actually a full fledged index search system which integrated their search mechanisms into hardware and allowed it to sit on a 'backbone' of the network to - on a periodic basic, crawl the entire network and index the entire thing.
The outcome: You'd be able to do google keyword searches and actually work the priority and details of the search yourself, and the results would come up in a single search screen.
Now clearly this is a little different than what you're asking for - a single consolidated point of entry for all information in a system. if you can 'contain' your information, force your users to only supply information in the format you require - which many corporations do - then you can roll your own information management system - pick your language of choice for this and leverage a SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL backend for the data store and for the front end - you have any number of options including customized clients (with client/server programming) or n-tier web like designs.
Wiki is fairly unique in that it's fairly free form, but not without it's issues. it's still highly structured, is a language in itself, and reinforces group think.
Personally. I've gotten to be a fan of indexed services and compartmentalization. it's safer that way, easier to manage the compartments, and easier to customize without pissing off an entire constituency.
There's going to come a point where you quit thinking people are idiots.
And you're going to start realizing ....
maybe they know something you don't......
There is. But it's funny no matter what comment I contribute, I get marked down for the Karma. As if someone from India truly believes it's going to matter.
I've been homeless for three years because foreign workers have made it all but impossible for me to find employment.
I wish these folks luck.
Sounds like the Russians are now about 60 years behind the United States with robotic technologically.
Why does this make 'the feed', clearly unverified, when other perfectly valid stories are omitted?
Does nothing but rewrite the URL for me and everyone else here it seems
Is this the Minister of Education for South Korea or Shanghai, China posting this?
WHAT did we tell you about staying off American based media spreading your propaganda!?!?
lol!
Personally, I think the hackers are bored. Misdirected. And if you were to watch the Borg from Star Trek, it's hard not to draw an analogy to the Borg's relentless pursuit consuming biology and technology - but for no real reason - which begs the question "What is the purpose?".
Oh I know, I know. You hackers love seeing 'pwned by so-and-so'
It's like a leaderboard on a video game, right? The more you see your name in highlights, the more points you score?
To what end? i mean. Did you really win any games?
We all know you have the ability to infiltrate pretty much any system and circumvent anything, anywhere. You've proven that much already.
But me. Being a pseudo hacker, not a real one, I just like pretending to be but in all honesty I am a novice...
I can't help but ask.
Once you've caused anarchy. Brought it all down. What next?
You're top of the poo pile now, CEO of dog poo, and with all the money in the world - you are now in charge of rebuilding the poo infrastructure because life, quite frankly, was better and you enjoyed not having to watch your back which was there with the lifestyle that was in place before you started tearing it all down.
But can you see past your own poo to know there's something your crazy mad skills as hackers and security experts can offer this world?
Can you see past your own poo to realize there's more you can do with your skills than defense and offense?
Can you see past your own poo to realize you - as a collective community - can actually make people feel good with your skills? That you can help someone who's had a bad day? That you can right wrongs?
Or are you that insecure and does your ego need stroking constantly and are you incapable of doing these things without recognition, and as a result, you choose to rip apart the society you hold in such contempt?
I see great things being possible for all hackers.
But not as long as you're unwilling to make the conscious choice to help rather than harm with those skills.
And if you're legitimate with your skills working in security, intelligence, or something of the like.
As long as you're ascribing to the mental story that you are defending those in need, you're only going to be playing a never ending giant game of whack a mole.
You deserve better than that.
I as a homeless man know you do.
This is weird.
Look, speaking on behalf of any corporation. Sometimes, YES, there's absolutely planned obsolescence in products. But truth be told, with so many consumer choices out there, this doesn't happen to the frequency it used to.
In the case of this man's $12 fix.
What I crack up at nowadays is how lazy people are at research lately.
"Why didn't Samsung tell me about the $12 fix" that's their job and responsibility
Is it possible that they didn't know?
Like Kim Davis not granting marriage certificates in Kentucky, some assert that if she wasn't going to hand out certificates - then it was "her responsibility to tell those seeking marriage certificates where to go to get them if she wasn't going to do it herself"
Samsung not having immediate information on how to resolve a problem they created by their presence. Kim Davis not being able to resolve other's problems problem she created by her choice.
I'm proud of this man for learning how to research his own answer.
Even if he's angry he had to do it.
As a viewer. Up until about 8 years ago, I had very little to choose from in variation of tv and movie entertainment options.
In a general sense, the 'major players' had become extremely predictable.
Every summer, movies 'blockbuster' movies would come out with either robots, superheroes, or aliens - or a variation of the theme.
And television shows - generally featured the equivalent of 'Friends' spun any which way.
Sure, there's been gems here and there. Futurama and the Simpsons which last quite a while. Then there's wonderful exceptions such as Angel, Firefly, Doctor Who and Star Trek. But more often than not, it seems like these shows are cancelled as fast as the executives can get their grubby mitts into it by introducing gun battles and cowboys versus indians and "scary monster crap" to eventually kill the show.
It's almost as if this is a calculated counter measure the producers and writers take on these shows to kill them. .
Now though. and for a few years, there's more intelligent and diverse entertainment options arriving and too much for any one critic or mindless executive to control and kill. Whether it's original entries like Dexter or Mr Robot, or it's a derivation of a theme, it's refreshing to have so many entertainment options that have not been dissected by these people who just can't keep up with the options.
To the creative types introducing the wonderful variety of entertainment starting to be offered.
I say increase the supply.
And I want to see more superhero, alien, and villain, space explorer and time traveler comedies and love stories.
There's more to life than head shots and reusing the same recipes over and over again without introducing new spices to the mix.
The internet is becoming a wonderful resource for fiction and stories, but as a credible source of information it is quickly unbecoming.
Personally, I have avoided wikipedia for about a year now because of revisionist history - it seems as though there are those from outside the United States who would prefer manipulating the public consciousness and this wikipedia is one tool they leverage to that end.
On numerous occasions, I have attempted to make edits - and quickly get someone from India who's banning my edits.
There's no real recourse against this, and these 'power users' - so rather than even mess with it or worry about it anymore, I view it as but one perspective of many, and in this case, a limited and wholly inaccurate view of the world.
Wikipedia is in a tough position. It's confronted with alternate realities directly, and manipulation accordingly - and some of us are simply not wanting to contribute or 'play this game' any longer because there's so many people convinced multiple realities is a theory to pick and choose from.
What would be cool is if there was an alternate version of wikipedia for every reality.
Boy i cannot wait for the flames from the misfiring neurons who don't understand this and call me crazy for the way I see the world!!
There's absolutely no reason he can't have two lifestyles. One living as a regular joe in a suburban house driving a regular car. This lifestyle can be used for dating and others where it's more important to maintain a low profile. Maybe new potential endeavors or getting to know new people.
And the other in his mansion. with the yacht.
Sometimes it's easier pretending to be two or more different people than being one and being torn in a hundred different directions because you ultimately know people will want to use you for what you have, and finding substance in our relationships becomes the most important thing in life.
Speaking personally, I perceive the universe as only being in existence 45 years in total.
Now sure, I understand there's historical and scientific 'evidence' to suggest that it's been around longer. But for me, through provable and personally verifiable science, I cannot reliably prove through repeatable tests that gravity moved at a constant speed nor the speed of light moved at a constant speed prior to my coming into existence. Since I do not have the capability to time travel, I am incapable of proving anything prior to my birth.
That's simple rational logic.
So to me - The Big Bang I do NOT doubt happened 13.8 billions years ago for someone else in an alternate reality (which alternate realities I personally have proof of that works for me), but to me in this reality, the big bang is merely one historical story of this planet's inception - of which there are, in my mind, literally infinite potential stories to be told.
So of course some perceive the big bang length of time being less.
I mean, this is a no-brainer application of Einstein's Relativity, and the observer bias, is it not?
With two degrees, and 30 years of IT experience, I am now homeless and out of work for three years thanks to H1B workers.
Now they can statistically attempt to 'spin' this any which way they like. But the simple fact of the matter is. Most of the Americans I know in IT are unemployed or underemployed, their jobs going to lower cost H1B workers who have replaced us.
Which is fine by me. I always wanted to learn to hack better, and I have been inspired by video games called "Thief" - that maybe, it's these people who have no concern for those they are replacing, that we'll simply go to their houses, and take their belongings.
I mean. What are they going to do - put a homeless person in jail and feed me, clothe me, and give me a bed?
Lol. not gonna happen. I'll be back on the street the next day doing the same thing.
Sorry, I call bullshit. Those 'unskilled' positions are killing opportunties for the educated and experienced for who knows what reason.