What humors me is the fact that you're supposedly going to have these wondrous tiny machines that can work at the cellular level, and you're just going to use them to deliver old-fashioned drugs? I guess medical science isn't imaginative enough to get past the existing way of doing things. It kind of reminds me when futurists used to imagine robots as humanoid devices, pulling levers and turning knobs--with it never occurring to them that it would be much more efficient to actually REPLACE the old levers and knobs altogether and let the machine be operated directly by computer.
Listen, Republican. President Dick Cheney's himbo proxy was bad. Barak "No Change" Obama is bad too. Fucking deal with it.
As for me, I don't vote for either party, and haven't for a long time. I despise them both. I also hate people like you, who think that everyone is bad except YOUR party. People like you are the problem. You're just the dumb asshole wearing the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos!" t-shirt.
The typical White House approach to any threat like this (and both GW and Obama have used this approach many times) is to call together all the parties involved (especially the politicians) and ask them "Do you really want us to have to blame you if there is another terrorist attack?" Scares the shit out of any politician.
You're 47 and don't remember the era when these magazines came with type-it-yourself game code, the only games reviews you could find anywhere, and (later) great demo and shareware discs?
Wait, I remember now. A long long ago, in the before-time, there was a manufacturer named "LG." They "competed" with Samsung and Sony. But then the rains came, and their factories slowed, and then finally ground to a stop. The old books told of it with their ink-words. And some elders say you can still hear their slogans at night--and that they might even still be around--hiding in the woods, foraging for scraps, surviving as best they can.
The only thing even remotely Disney that has ever taken a chance before in history was Miramax--and that was a brief fluke, due mainly to the unexpected success and skill of the Weinsteins, never to be repeated again.
Plus, it's Disney. They're not going to take any chances. So expect safe, bland, middle of the road writing combined with lots of CGI action setpieces for the trailers--all carefully test-marketed to within an inch of the producers' lives.
It's produced by the king studio of all that is mediocre, and directed by the Ron Howard of his generation. Are you expecting fucking Stanley Kubrick here?
If someone really did crack that particular nut, they wouldn't need to turn to a fringe funding through Kickstarter. VC's would be coming out of the woodwork to throw money at them.
You're joking, but that is actually Linux's biggest problem, and the reason it will never make any significant dent in the desktop market. Apple and MS may have a few minor variations of their OS's, but for the most part they make things pretty simple. The consumer can generally choose from two basic flavors of Windows (Home and Professional) and one flavor of Apple OS.
But when you get into Linux, you have to start by telling the consumer "Well, there really is no such thing as Linux" and explaining to them that there are hundreds of different distros to choose from, many of which are radically different from one another. This sort of incredible fracturing may be attractive to uber-hardcore geeks, but it sends the average user running as fast as they can back to Windows and Apple.
For a brief period it seemed like Ubuntu might break through this barrier and become the defacto Linux standard. But, inevitably, the Linux hipsters turned against it ("It used to be about the MUSIC, man! Now you've gone all commercial and so you suck!"). And so we're back to the fringe mess that is "Linux."
And, no, Android is NOT Linux. No one outside of a few autistic nitpickers thinks that running a heavily modified Linux kernel in an almost inaccessible undercarriage of an OS makes it "Linux." That's like saying that a 747 is a Rolls Royce just because it happens to use Rolls Royce engines.
Allow me to summarize the American legal system when it comes to international affairs:
Anything done by the U.S. = Legal Anything done by U.S. corporations = Legal Anything done by any country the U.S. doesn't like = Illegal Anything done by any corporation that doesn't play ball with the U.S. = Illegal
If it weren't for Edward Snowden, Cisco would have never been able to complain--because no one would have ever known it was happening. Keep in mind that the NSA had been doing this kind of stuff for OVER 10 YEARS without a significant leak. So you can't blame them for functioning under the assumption that neither Cisco nor anyone else was ever going to know it was happening (until about 75 years from now, when it's finally declassified).
Well, on the upside, at lest Google has deep enough pockets to afford to pay Comcast/Time-Warner to stream Twitch at a decent rate. Pretty soon the only video most of us will be able to see without constant buffering will be Netflix, YouTube/Twitch, and maybe Amazon and Hulu.
I find it funny how the US government accused Huawei and ZTE of building in backdoor access while engaging in the exact same practice.
It's funny. I was watching the news this morning and one of the lead stories was about the arrest of a bunch of Chinese officials for "cyberspying." And the first thing that I thought when I saw that was "I wonder what the Administration is trying to hide with this stunt." So I come on Slashdot and this is the first story I see this morning. Guess I know now why those Chinese dudes got arrested.
Smart strategy. Whenever a story breaks about YOUR cyberspying, just stage a distraction stunt to highlight OTHER COUNTRY'S cyberspying.
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What humors me is the fact that you're supposedly going to have these wondrous tiny machines that can work at the cellular level, and you're just going to use them to deliver old-fashioned drugs? I guess medical science isn't imaginative enough to get past the existing way of doing things. It kind of reminds me when futurists used to imagine robots as humanoid devices, pulling levers and turning knobs--with it never occurring to them that it would be much more efficient to actually REPLACE the old levers and knobs altogether and let the machine be operated directly by computer.
Nonsense. Two screws, a bolt, and an eyeball were successfully recovered for reuse.
I sure wouldn't want to be the person who got a bunch of people killed by limiting surveillance.
Wouldn't matter if you "got them killed" or not. The powers who want to stop your reforms would still blame you.
An attack *IS* coming, regardless. And they *WILL* blame you for it if you don't do what they tell you to. Now fall in line, bitch.
Listen, Republican. President Dick Cheney's himbo proxy was bad. Barak "No Change" Obama is bad too. Fucking deal with it.
As for me, I don't vote for either party, and haven't for a long time. I despise them both. I also hate people like you, who think that everyone is bad except YOUR party. People like you are the problem. You're just the dumb asshole wearing the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos!" t-shirt.
The typical White House approach to any threat like this (and both GW and Obama have used this approach many times) is to call together all the parties involved (especially the politicians) and ask them "Do you really want us to have to blame you if there is another terrorist attack?" Scares the shit out of any politician.
Next up on CNN, what does the video game magazine downsizing mean for the search for Flight 370?
E.T. phone it in
You're 47 and don't remember the era when these magazines came with type-it-yourself game code, the only games reviews you could find anywhere, and (later) great demo and shareware discs?
Where were you from 1981-1995?
Duh, he's Mrs. Henderson's husband.
They tested the brick wall stopping method. It did not end well.
Wait, I remember now. A long long ago, in the before-time, there was a manufacturer named "LG." They "competed" with Samsung and Sony. But then the rains came, and their factories slowed, and then finally ground to a stop. The old books told of it with their ink-words. And some elders say you can still hear their slogans at night--and that they might even still be around--hiding in the woods, foraging for scraps, surviving as best they can.
The only thing even remotely Disney that has ever taken a chance before in history was Miramax--and that was a brief fluke, due mainly to the unexpected success and skill of the Weinsteins, never to be repeated again.
Plus, it's Disney. They're not going to take any chances. So expect safe, bland, middle of the road writing combined with lots of CGI action setpieces for the trailers--all carefully test-marketed to within an inch of the producers' lives.
It's produced by the king studio of all that is mediocre, and directed by the Ron Howard of his generation. Are you expecting fucking Stanley Kubrick here?
If someone really did crack that particular nut, they wouldn't need to turn to a fringe funding through Kickstarter. VC's would be coming out of the woodwork to throw money at them.
As much as Google loves to fuck us, I'm surprised they didn't deploy anal probes too.
Every distro except the one I use does suck.
You're joking, but that is actually Linux's biggest problem, and the reason it will never make any significant dent in the desktop market. Apple and MS may have a few minor variations of their OS's, but for the most part they make things pretty simple. The consumer can generally choose from two basic flavors of Windows (Home and Professional) and one flavor of Apple OS.
But when you get into Linux, you have to start by telling the consumer "Well, there really is no such thing as Linux" and explaining to them that there are hundreds of different distros to choose from, many of which are radically different from one another. This sort of incredible fracturing may be attractive to uber-hardcore geeks, but it sends the average user running as fast as they can back to Windows and Apple.
For a brief period it seemed like Ubuntu might break through this barrier and become the defacto Linux standard. But, inevitably, the Linux hipsters turned against it ("It used to be about the MUSIC, man! Now you've gone all commercial and so you suck!"). And so we're back to the fringe mess that is "Linux."
And, no, Android is NOT Linux. No one outside of a few autistic nitpickers thinks that running a heavily modified Linux kernel in an almost inaccessible undercarriage of an OS makes it "Linux." That's like saying that a 747 is a Rolls Royce just because it happens to use Rolls Royce engines.
Somewhat more inspiring than Nixon's "You know what, this whole moon thing is overrated. Let's scrap it" speech.
More likely that its construction wasn't spread across enough (or the right) Congressional districts.
Allow me to summarize the American legal system when it comes to international affairs:
Anything done by the U.S. = Legal
Anything done by U.S. corporations = Legal
Anything done by any country the U.S. doesn't like = Illegal
Anything done by any corporation that doesn't play ball with the U.S. = Illegal
yeah it's weird in that regard that they went for opening that pandoras box..
They had to do something to distract people from the story that they're sabotaging Cisco routers coming out of the U.S.
If it weren't for Edward Snowden, Cisco would have never been able to complain--because no one would have ever known it was happening. Keep in mind that the NSA had been doing this kind of stuff for OVER 10 YEARS without a significant leak. So you can't blame them for functioning under the assumption that neither Cisco nor anyone else was ever going to know it was happening (until about 75 years from now, when it's finally declassified).
Well, on the upside, at lest Google has deep enough pockets to afford to pay Comcast/Time-Warner to stream Twitch at a decent rate. Pretty soon the only video most of us will be able to see without constant buffering will be Netflix, YouTube/Twitch, and maybe Amazon and Hulu.
I find it funny how the US government accused Huawei and ZTE of building in backdoor access while engaging in the exact same practice.
It's funny. I was watching the news this morning and one of the lead stories was about the arrest of a bunch of Chinese officials for "cyberspying." And the first thing that I thought when I saw that was "I wonder what the Administration is trying to hide with this stunt." So I come on Slashdot and this is the first story I see this morning. Guess I know now why those Chinese dudes got arrested.
Smart strategy. Whenever a story breaks about YOUR cyberspying, just stage a distraction stunt to highlight OTHER COUNTRY'S cyberspying.
Why does NSA have to do this? Can't they just order Cisco to install this in their factory?
Why risk someone at Cisco running to the press? Best to keep them out of the loop.
Is help?