Why would you never want to eat food again? I enjoy food. Taste is a sensation essential to enjoying life. Our bodies are made to naturally consume nutrients in the form of *food*, not powder.
You know why you get stomach cramps for a few days with this stuff? Because it's basically the same idea behind feeding tubes for patients who are unable to process food. I can tell you from personal experience that it's pretty miserable.
I can understand the use of this stuff for a malnourished population or maybe a field military operation where supplies are rationed and space is tight, but as some fashionable movement to create the "post-food man"? Why would you do that to yourself and deny yourself the essential pleasure of eating?
Sigh... not getting it. Many people who suffer from chronic illness cannot donate organs because they are not healthy organs, so they cannot be put on the list. Yet, these are the very people most likely to require an organ. Yet, legally (in this "list" scenario), they cannot receive an organ because they are not on the list.
How is that not obvious?
I think, sooner rather than later, we're going to need some sort of regulation that prohibits this predatory type of rent seeking for small and inconsequential things.
Obviously, renting has its place (apartments, homes, whole cars, etc.), but when we start offsetting the cost of manufacturing variances, we are going to pay for it in more ways than we can imagine. Think "automotive DMCA"⦠*shudder*
This is a nice, feel-good sentiment, but such a system would completely break down when you realize that many recipients of organ donation are unable to donate organs themselves because their organs are affected by illness -- that's why they need a transplant.
So, in your proposal, the people who need organs the most should be the people least entitled to them? Yeah, that would be a great system.
Funny you should say that. I have a Logitech Illuminated keyboard, which is excellent for touch typing and has just the right amount of click. It's precisely the ANSI en-US layout with a few small and very thoughtful improvements.
"Small" and "thoughtful" being the operative words, not "random ass bullshit" that Lenovo seems to be using.
"To all generally accepted razors and principles, this one notwithstanding, apply the following addendum: except where government or corporate interests are involved"
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, except where government or corporate interests are involved
When in doubt, the simplest explanation is likely the correct one, except where government or corporate interests are involved
This just in: different genders and ethnic groups are naturally attracted to different things.
Next we'll be hearing about how there are an inordinately high number of females in the hairstyling and beautician industry or how basketball has too many black men.
Oh, wait, no we won't, because discriminating against white males is the racism du jour.
According to where I originally read this (Boing Boing) it says he was.
However, I now see this at the bottom of the Wired article:
Update: Rogers confirmed to WIRED that the vulnerability he found was a SQL-injection vulnerability. He says the police have not contacted him and that he only learned heâ(TM)d been reported to the police from the journalist who wrote the story for The Age.
My apologies, title should read someone: Victorian Transportation Department Calls Police After Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability
Aereo gives each individual subscriber their own antenna. That's not broadcasting, it's "singlecasting" at most, but really just time and location shifting.
And besides, if customers are subscribing to for content they can't otherwise get because of where they live, who's losing money here?
And by engaging in this petty bipartisanship, you're only contributing to the ignorance that perpetuates the many problems facing America, including ill-advised "wars on ${everything}"
Don't kid yourself, both sides are the same class of power-lusting fascists milking this "us vs. them" mentality as a distraction mechanism.
I have a sheet of paper hidden in my office on which I've printed a list of clues that reveal portions of my encryption keys. They can only be solved using information only known by close and trustworthy family and friends. It is not entitled and appears fairly obscure without context, but I know they're smart to figure that out.
Alternately, you could go with Cory Doctorow's solution of giving one half of each encryption key to your lawyer and the other half to your significant other. If anything were to happen that would give them power of attorney, they would need to collaborate to unlock your data. Having one of them as your lawyer makes this a very attractive option (assuming you're the one Slashdotter when a significant other;)
Slashdot Mirror
Now Lenovo can fuck up that product line too, just like they did with the ThinkPad.
Why would you never want to eat food again? I enjoy food. Taste is a sensation essential to enjoying life. Our bodies are made to naturally consume nutrients in the form of *food*, not powder.
You know why you get stomach cramps for a few days with this stuff? Because it's basically the same idea behind feeding tubes for patients who are unable to process food. I can tell you from personal experience that it's pretty miserable.
I can understand the use of this stuff for a malnourished population or maybe a field military operation where supplies are rationed and space is tight, but as some fashionable movement to create the "post-food man"? Why would you do that to yourself and deny yourself the essential pleasure of eating?
No way anyone else could possibly be clever enough to figure it out, that's unpossible!
Sigh... not getting it. Many people who suffer from chronic illness cannot donate organs because they are not healthy organs, so they cannot be put on the list. Yet, these are the very people most likely to require an organ. Yet, legally (in this "list" scenario), they cannot receive an organ because they are not on the list. How is that not obvious?
I herd u liked bugs...
I think, sooner rather than later, we're going to need some sort of regulation that prohibits this predatory type of rent seeking for small and inconsequential things.
Obviously, renting has its place (apartments, homes, whole cars, etc.), but when we start offsetting the cost of manufacturing variances, we are going to pay for it in more ways than we can imagine. Think "automotive DMCA"⦠*shudder*
This is a nice, feel-good sentiment, but such a system would completely break down when you realize that many recipients of organ donation are unable to donate organs themselves because their organs are affected by illness -- that's why they need a transplant.
So, in your proposal, the people who need organs the most should be the people least entitled to them? Yeah, that would be a great system.
Funny you should say that. I have a Logitech Illuminated keyboard, which is excellent for touch typing and has just the right amount of click. It's precisely the ANSI en-US layout with a few small and very thoughtful improvements.
"Small" and "thoughtful" being the operative words, not "random ass bullshit" that Lenovo seems to be using.
It's not that complicated, damn it.
They chose the wrong two.
I have a razor. Let's call it FuzzNugget's razor.
"To all generally accepted razors and principles, this one notwithstanding, apply the following addendum: except where government or corporate interests are involved"
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, except where government or corporate interests are involved
When in doubt, the simplest explanation is likely the correct one, except where government or corporate interests are involved
And so on...
You've seen how Hollywood looses their shit every time a new form of media is developed and popularized. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Just watch, manufacturers of $everything are going to bring the hammer down HARD.
See: "Printcrime" by Cory Doctorow. Spooky.
assaulting him by throwing popcorn
Oh god, my sides.
Seriously, anyone who responds to "having popcorn thrown at them" by discharging a firearm at the "thrower" is a violent psychopath.
Conduit. You never know what might be invented or standardized tomorrow and render your cabling obsolete.
This just in: different genders and ethnic groups are naturally attracted to different things.
Next we'll be hearing about how there are an inordinately high number of females in the hairstyling and beautician industry or how basketball has too many black men.
Oh, wait, no we won't, because discriminating against white males is the racism du jour.
I'm not a statisticianololgist
There's actually a job where you study people who do statistics?
"The title should read something like..."
Fucking autocorrect.
According to where I originally read this (Boing Boing) it says he was.
However, I now see this at the bottom of the Wired article:
Update: Rogers confirmed to WIRED that the vulnerability he found was a SQL-injection vulnerability. He says the police have not contacted him and that he only learned heâ(TM)d been reported to the police from the journalist who wrote the story for The Age.
My apologies, title should read someone: Victorian Transportation Department Calls Police After Teen Reports SQL Injection Vulnerability
`sudo mods edit title`
if putting fucking honey boo boo on Mars it's what gets the effort funded I'm ok with that.
I think most people would have no problem sending them to Mars. It's already a one way trip, so that's a win-win.
Aereo gives each individual subscriber their own antenna. That's not broadcasting, it's "singlecasting" at most, but really just time and location shifting.
And besides, if customers are subscribing to for content they can't otherwise get because of where they live, who's losing money here?
The Bluetoothbrush
*badump tshhhh*
Yelling, "get the fuck off the train tracks, you fucking morons!"
Then let Darwin take care of the rest.
And by engaging in this petty bipartisanship, you're only contributing to the ignorance that perpetuates the many problems facing America, including ill-advised "wars on ${everything}"
Don't kid yourself, both sides are the same class of power-lusting fascists milking this "us vs. them" mentality as a distraction mechanism.
I have a sheet of paper hidden in my office on which I've printed a list of clues that reveal portions of my encryption keys. They can only be solved using information only known by close and trustworthy family and friends. It is not entitled and appears fairly obscure without context, but I know they're smart to figure that out.
Alternately, you could go with Cory Doctorow's solution of giving one half of each encryption key to your lawyer and the other half to your significant other. If anything were to happen that would give them power of attorney, they would need to collaborate to unlock your data. Having one of them as your lawyer makes this a very attractive option (assuming you're the one Slashdotter when a significant other ;)
The carriers are all giant, oligopolistic incumbents. Creating an environment "not good for innovation" is exactly the point.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, except where government or big business is involved.