I have a friend who semi-jokingly says he doesn't believe that world war 2 happened, because it just sounds too ludicrous.
I mean, seriously... an industrialized nation that is filled with some of the smartest minds in the world (i.e. Einstein was German), goes on a campaign of genocide because they decide all Jews are inherently bad people.
Truth is more outrageous than fiction. Go ahead and keep believing whatever is necessary to keep your faith in authority.
No, I disagree. It's a funny post, but I don't think it's a good troll. My opinion of a troll is a statement that isn't obviously stupid, but just as stupid as you'd expect from a certain type of character frequenting slashdot.
The greatest form of mockery is that which those who you are mocking will hold up as a prime example of their true feelings/ideas. That, to me, is a good troll.
What makes slashdot so interesting, is one can never tell if certain posts are trolls or people who really believe what they are saying. I guess that's why people like the parent poster think of a good troll as something incredibly stupid, because it has to be a troll.
I suppose there must be something wrong with me, because I like ambiguous humor.
I'm a PC user, and have been for many years. I haven't used Macs much at all, but the few recent times I have, I've been very pleased.
If I wanted to buy a powerful, stable system that I didn't have to spend much time tinkering with, it would be a Mac. The only reasons I have a PC running linux right now is because it's cheap and I like to tinker.
For the average desktop user now, I'd recommend the Mac. The only thing that you'll loose by getting a Mac is the convenience of being able to run all software made for windows. In exchange for this, you'll get pretty close compatability with other *nix flavors, which means you can benefit from the majority of open-source software out there.
If you have to choose between PC/Windows, MAC/OSX, definitely go with the latter.
... have a brain, but that's not what she's out to display for marketing purposes. She really didn't say anything too insightful in that interview. Anyone from her (and my) generation can talk about the evils of the big media and their approach to copyright.
Society and politics aren't changing as fast as technology. They can't possibly handle all the implications of each new invention.
Privacy may be an outdated idea. People want it to hide what may embarrass them. But their embarrassment really is the problem.
If something would embarrass them, either they are too weak to stand up for who they are, or they are doing something they know to be bad, and against their own stated principles.
We need to be more forgiving of people for their weaknesses, and be more careful about our own. If loss of privacy would help these two statements, then what is the problem?
This comment was moderated as troll... I am not sure what to say about this. Perhaps people are now deploying randomized modding scripts when they get mod points. This is almost as good as when I was moderated as overrated before my post had any other moderation.
Maybe short and simple = troll?
It seems that in the first part of your post, you are saying that economics are fair, and I agree with you there.
But then you go on to justify the music industry because it creates/sustains jobs. I don't know why just because a market creates jobs, it is thought of as a good thing economically.
The heroin market creates jobs. But not only is that normally considered not good for society, it's not even good for the economy. Heroin users can be assumed to be less productive members of the workforce, if they work at all. Also, they are more inclined to steal money from other people to buy heroin.
The same way that we don't buy a new TV to support the economy, markets don't work to create jobs and help the economy. Markets work to sustain their own existence, like any entity.
In fact, I use the latest, 7.01, because 7.0 had those security issues or whatever.
I just went to MSN.com.... renders fine at 1024x768 as far as I can tell. No overlapping text, maybe a little bit too much empty space, especially to the far right, but nothing I would even notice if I wasn't looking for problems.
When a shuttle is in the middle of the "lifting off" process, I imagine it's impossible to say, "wait... we might have a problem, let's just cancel this whole thing". Perhaps NASA knew that this insulating foam piece could have caused serious damage, but chose to keep it under their hats, because, what good could it do at that point?
If this hypothetical scenario is true, would the astronauts have been alerted? Maybe not, even though astronauts are chosen for being fairly calm in dire situations, it still would be a risk.
I have some NiMH AAA batteries for my Clie peg-sl10. What charging policy should I use for them? Run them dry or keep them capped? Charge them for as long as possible, or shoot for charging them to 90%, so as not to overcharge?
I wonder why Mr. AC bothered posting, as I can't think of any agenda that post could help (besides making the poster feel better).
I can only assume that it was the same AC that Bruce responded to.
Well... I could dream of some convoluted scenario where the second AC post was a Perens flunkie trying to discredit the first AC... but that's pretty wacky, even for me.
Yes, I agree... OSes are only really useful when the intended use of a device is an abstract or changing concept.
"yeah, I've got an ok dishwasher now, but when I download a couple of things from the internet, I'll be able to listen to mp3s with it and it will keep track of all my appointments."
I am looking through the zIWETHEY politics forum now, after reading with amusement this whole exchange between Mr AC and Mr Featureless. I would have replied to Mr Featureless myself if it hadn't been so thoroughly done already.
I dislike people rationalizing their sense of entitlement. Where did this strange idea come from, the "unalienable right"?
If I could be expressed as a wave, what would my my harmonic twins look like? Me, just smaller?
Anyway, urges to conform are commonplace and not usually frowned apon.
It's interesting, your condemnation of fantasy worlds really doesn't incite me as much as your endorsement of history in it's place. History, in my mind, is a collection of idealized fantasies based upon second, 3rd, nth hand accounts with "irrelevant details" glossed over. It's hard enough to figure out what really happening in this world right now (which would be more productive than being stuck in the past) with incredible amount of people on this world, incredible amount of information available and the watered down presentations of mainstream media.
So forget about history, it's dead... read the newspaper (and your local "alternative" paper), internet news sites, etc, and when that gets to depressing, switch back to fantasy worlds where good vs. evil is clearly laid out and you can be inspired to believe there may be truth and justice in this world (even if there aren't such, it is better to believe).
That's my return flame.
use windows in most cases shouldn't care so much about postings like this... Microsoft vulnerabilities are almost all in the explicitly internet related microsoft tools. If you don't use IE or outlook, you shouldn't have to worry much. I really think that even if 43% of slashdotters use windows as their main OS, only 5%-10% of them would use IE as their main browser. At least I hope so. Has there been a survey lately?
So I think that IE and outlook vulnerability stories could be said to be needless and redundant... but then, I'm reading them out of curiousity.
So this (representative?) Democracy thing has worked ok for us in the United States for a couple centuries and a bit. But we've had our share of problems and bad leaders.
Democracy, especially in its strange USA form is probably not the best government possible (given human fallability), and may not even be the best implemented government in existence today. certainly we should believe the future holds improvement for all human systems, including goverment. What would a future be without progress?
Anyway, why should we be so proud of a goverment that is (in principle, at least) ruled by the majority? The majority of people living in the United States are probably less intelligent than the average slashdot reader. And a minority of slashdot readers seem to make comments with any real thought. Minorities seem more important to me... the fringes. Rule of the majority reminds me of the phrase "mob rule"...
I just want to be left alone. I don't really want anyone to tell me what to do, unless they are friend, family or lover. I don't want the majority, a judge, a policeman or a system of checks and balances to tell me what to do. And in return I'll promise to try and leave other people alone.
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well, he was born German, if I remember correctly
I have a friend who semi-jokingly says he doesn't believe that world war 2 happened, because it just sounds too ludicrous.
I mean, seriously... an industrialized nation that is filled with some of the smartest minds in the world (i.e. Einstein was German), goes on a campaign of genocide because they decide all Jews are inherently bad people.
Truth is more outrageous than fiction. Go ahead and keep believing whatever is necessary to keep your faith in authority.
No, I disagree. It's a funny post, but I don't think it's a good troll. My opinion of a troll is a statement that isn't obviously stupid, but just as stupid as you'd expect from a certain type of character frequenting slashdot.
The greatest form of mockery is that which those who you are mocking will hold up as a prime example of their true feelings/ideas. That, to me, is a good troll.
What makes slashdot so interesting, is one can never tell if certain posts are trolls or people who really believe what they are saying. I guess that's why people like the parent poster think of a good troll as something incredibly stupid, because it has to be a troll.
I suppose there must be something wrong with me, because I like ambiguous humor.
I'm a PC user, and have been for many years. I haven't used Macs much at all, but the few recent times I have, I've been very pleased.
If I wanted to buy a powerful, stable system that I didn't have to spend much time tinkering with, it would be a Mac. The only reasons I have a PC running linux right now is because it's cheap and I like to tinker.
For the average desktop user now, I'd recommend the Mac. The only thing that you'll loose by getting a Mac is the convenience of being able to run all software made for windows. In exchange for this, you'll get pretty close compatability with other *nix flavors, which means you can benefit from the majority of open-source software out there.
If you have to choose between PC/Windows, MAC/OSX, definitely go with the latter.
but buying the books is essential where I go. You could take away the professor, but please leave me a book...
... have a brain, but that's not what she's out to display for marketing purposes. She really didn't say anything too insightful in that interview. Anyone from her (and my) generation can talk about the evils of the big media and their approach to copyright.
Society and politics aren't changing as fast as technology. They can't possibly handle all the implications of each new invention.
Privacy may be an outdated idea. People want it to hide what may embarrass them. But their embarrassment really is the problem.
If something would embarrass them, either they are too weak to stand up for who they are, or they are doing something they know to be bad, and against their own stated principles.
We need to be more forgiving of people for their weaknesses, and be more careful about our own. If loss of privacy would help these two statements, then what is the problem?
At my state college, seems like noone uses linux/does interesting programming or electronic projects.
I want your education; I want your environment!
This comment was moderated as troll... I am not sure what to say about this. Perhaps people are now deploying randomized modding scripts when they get mod points. This is almost as good as when I was moderated as overrated before my post had any other moderation.
Maybe short and simple = troll?
It seems that in the first part of your post, you are saying that economics are fair, and I agree with you there.
But then you go on to justify the music industry because it creates/sustains jobs. I don't know why just because a market creates jobs, it is thought of as a good thing economically.
The heroin market creates jobs. But not only is that normally considered not good for society, it's not even good for the economy. Heroin users can be assumed to be less productive members of the workforce, if they work at all. Also, they are more inclined to steal money from other people to buy heroin.
The same way that we don't buy a new TV to support the economy, markets don't work to create jobs and help the economy. Markets work to sustain their own existence, like any entity.
A Hashish Taco? Whoa...
the bloat doesn't rid itself!
In fact, I use the latest, 7.01, because 7.0 had those security issues or whatever.
I just went to MSN.com.... renders fine at 1024x768 as far as I can tell. No overlapping text, maybe a little bit too much empty space, especially to the far right, but nothing I would even notice if I wasn't looking for problems.
When a shuttle is in the middle of the "lifting off" process, I imagine it's impossible to say, "wait... we might have a problem, let's just cancel this whole thing". Perhaps NASA knew that this insulating foam piece could have caused serious damage, but chose to keep it under their hats, because, what good could it do at that point?
If this hypothetical scenario is true, would the astronauts have been alerted? Maybe not, even though astronauts are chosen for being fairly calm in dire situations, it still would be a risk.
I have some NiMH AAA batteries for my Clie peg-sl10.
What charging policy should I use for them? Run them dry or keep them capped? Charge them for as
long as possible, or shoot for charging them to 90%, so as not to overcharge?
it doesn't fall under the "stuff that matters" category, either.
what, their nose?
Don't disturb the children.
I wonder why Mr. AC bothered posting, as I can't think of any agenda that post could help (besides making the poster feel better).
I can only assume that it was the same AC that Bruce responded to.
Well... I could dream of some convoluted scenario where the second AC post was a Perens flunkie trying to discredit the first AC... but that's pretty wacky, even for me.
Yes, I agree... OSes are only really useful when the intended use of a device is an abstract or changing concept.
"yeah, I've got an ok dishwasher now, but when I download a couple of things from the internet, I'll be able to listen to mp3s with it and it will keep track of all my appointments."
I am looking through the zIWETHEY politics forum now, after reading with amusement this whole exchange between Mr AC and Mr Featureless. I would have replied to Mr Featureless myself if it hadn't been so thoroughly done already.
I dislike people rationalizing their sense of entitlement. Where did this strange idea come from, the "unalienable right"?
If I could be expressed as a wave, what would my
my harmonic twins look like? Me, just smaller?
Anyway, urges to conform are commonplace and not
usually frowned apon.
It's interesting, your condemnation of fantasy worlds really doesn't incite me as much as your endorsement of history in it's place. History, in my mind, is a collection of idealized fantasies based upon second, 3rd, nth hand accounts with "irrelevant details" glossed over. It's hard enough to figure out what really happening in this world right now (which would be more productive than being stuck in the past) with incredible amount of people on this world, incredible amount of information available and the watered down presentations of mainstream media.
So forget about history, it's dead... read the newspaper (and your local "alternative" paper), internet news sites, etc, and when that gets to depressing, switch back to fantasy worlds where good vs. evil is clearly laid out and you can be inspired to believe there may be truth and justice in this world (even if there aren't such, it is better to believe).
That's my return flame.
use windows in most cases shouldn't care so much about postings like this... Microsoft vulnerabilities are almost all in the explicitly internet related microsoft tools. If you don't use IE or outlook, you shouldn't have to worry much. I really think that even if 43% of slashdotters use windows as their main OS, only 5%-10% of them would use IE as their main browser. At least I hope so. Has there been a survey lately?
So I think that IE and outlook vulnerability stories could be said to be needless and redundant... but then, I'm reading them out of curiousity.
So this (representative?) Democracy thing has worked ok for us in the United States for a couple centuries and a bit. But we've had our share of problems and bad leaders.
Democracy, especially in its strange USA form is probably not the best government possible (given human fallability), and may not even be the best implemented government in existence today. certainly we should believe the future holds improvement for all human systems, including goverment. What would a future be without progress?
Anyway, why should we be so proud of a goverment that is (in principle, at least) ruled by the majority? The majority of people living in the United States are probably less intelligent than the average slashdot reader. And a minority of slashdot readers seem to make comments with any real thought. Minorities seem more important to me... the fringes. Rule of the majority reminds me of the phrase "mob rule"...
I just want to be left alone. I don't really want anyone to tell me what to do, unless they are friend, family or lover. I don't want the majority, a judge, a policeman or a system of checks and balances to tell me what to do. And in return I'll promise to try and leave other people alone.