If I have the solution to why FB sucks, G+ sucks, and the idea for a service that would successfully replace them, why in the world would I explain it in detail to some random person on Slashdot? If you're smart enough, you'll come up with it on your own. Otherwise maybe I'll get around to it one day if nobody else has figured it out within a few years.
That means they only have to find a "seed" population to adopt the trend: the model says if all of them adopt it, everyone on the network will.
The book "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" covers exactly what this article is talking about. Quite an interesting read.
First, I know very few Air Force personnel who have been in any situation in which they are in direct combat with the enemy.
That speaks to your own ignorance more than anything else.
However most of the Air Force spends more time putting gel in their hair and hanging out at the MWR tent in theater than doing anything else. SOURCE: been there, done that.
Yeah, and most of the Army spends their time drooling on their shirts.... or filling out Air Force transfer paperwork.
While you may be right about the Air Force, in both the Army and Marines, it is not a special duty assignment. Since we were discussing direct combat with the enemy, it is heavily implied that we are speaking about the Army and Marines, as they are the most likely to engage a 12-year old al-Qaeda fool planting a bomb on the side of the road.
Nice ASSumptions
My unit in the Air Force was a Combat Communications Squadron. Where do you suppose that name came from?
Given that, in the Army and Marines, a duty position is "CQ runner" or "KP" or "tower guard". First Sergeant is a rank, generally E-8. However it can be given to any NCO with a memo written by a O-5 or above to indicate that the person has been awarded the title of First Sergeant and wear the rank, yet still be in the same pay grade (E-7, etc). SOURCE: had to deal with my crappy PSG being the 1SG while we were deployed.
No they want to restrict a business from selling over sized cups of sugary beverages, just like they restrict the serving sizes of alcoholic beverages.
All of which the Constitution authorizes the government to do....correct?
Oh and your pathetic attempt at linking slavery to Coke sales earns you the highly valued "Twit of the Week" award.
And your blindingly ignorant, short sighted, and stupid apology for fascism earns you the "Traitor to Liberty of the Year" "award."
Yes, registering with MS for $99 (which goes entirely to Verisign) is an insurmountable problem.
Damn right it's insurmountable. You think I'm sending Verisign $99 just to use my own goddamn computer? Fuck that shit. I don't support the security certificate racket. My insecure computer is fine with me, thanks.
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV, made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919, and landed June 15,1919, at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, twenty-seven minutes. The news of the adventure spead like wildfire and the two men were received as heroes in London. For their accomplishment, they were presented with Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill, who was then Britain's Secretary of State. A few days later, both men were knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George V, for recognition of their pioneering achievment.
They don't have Google in your country, asshole? Maybe you should get back to subsistence farming and stop wasting our time with these ridiculous questions. Who is Amelia Earhart? LOL...
If anyone in the US government is, as a private individual, fully supportive of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and has a deeper understanding of what our Founders intended than you or I ever will (unless you are not just an idealist or anarchist and in fact a student of law or possibly a member of Congress), it is Barrack Obama.
No nigger, it's about freedom and liberty. Don't you get it? Your grandpappy knows what slavery was all about, why the fuck don't you? If somebody is dead set on enslaving your ass....the only way to STOP him is to KILL him!
No, the only solution is to get rid of the police state that scapegoats people and singles them out for extra punishment based on their membership of some arbitrary group of "evil" people.
This plan seems to count on the fact that information could be spread to a vast number of people at little cost to owners accounts spawning the last couple of hops.
Stop apologizing for despots and their machinations of evil. You're a traitor to liberty; to your own self. The words you quoted are nothing more than tools used to enslave, and you yourself are a tool for spreading them.
Here's something more relevant:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
These words were written by those who were sick and tired of the very same slavery, and vowed to put an end to it.
Unfortunately their weak-kneed, pants pissing children and grandchildren let the tyranny creep back in, generation after generation, resulting in the traitorous words you so blindly copied and pasted for us above. Stop being a tool for your government masters, you disgusting worm.
Samuel Adams said it best:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
I'm also not entirely clear on why choosing a certain profession means that you are entitled to stop working after five successful years and never have to work again.
If the state of the world, the people, the economy, i.e. the stars, all align to ensure that a certain individual has something that the rest of humanity desperately, desperately wants....that person is likely to become rich beyond all imagination....or at least, have the opportunity to be.
Titanic, Avatar and Avengers each costed the better part of a quarter billion dollars to make as well, and yet they made massive profits for the companies making them. Whether you think they're good movies or not -- you can't argue with that being good business.
Sure I can...as a businessman who actually has a fucking brain on his shoulders, as well as morals, which prevent me from doing such unethical things as, oh I dunno...outright stealing people's money by promising an awesome film then delivering a shitpile like Battleship.
In the long term, stupidity leads to failure, always. Anyone who disagrees is likely a moron who will go down with the ship.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like me.
Tell your friend to try Ecstasy. It's a permanent fix.
If I have the solution to why FB sucks, G+ sucks, and the idea for a service that would successfully replace them, why in the world would I explain it in detail to some random person on Slashdot? If you're smart enough, you'll come up with it on your own. Otherwise maybe I'll get around to it one day if nobody else has figured it out within a few years.
I don't give a shit what it's about.
Not using it.
That means they only have to find a "seed" population to adopt the trend: the model says if all of them adopt it, everyone on the network will.
The book "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" covers exactly what this article is talking about. Quite an interesting read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
First, I know very few Air Force personnel who have been in any situation in which they are in direct combat with the enemy.
That speaks to your own ignorance more than anything else.
However most of the Air Force spends more time putting gel in their hair and hanging out at the MWR tent in theater than doing anything else. SOURCE: been there, done that.
Yeah, and most of the Army spends their time drooling on their shirts .... or filling out Air Force transfer paperwork.
While you may be right about the Air Force, in both the Army and Marines, it is not a special duty assignment. Since we were discussing direct combat with the enemy, it is heavily implied that we are speaking about the Army and Marines, as they are the most likely to engage a 12-year old al-Qaeda fool planting a bomb on the side of the road.
Nice ASSumptions
My unit in the Air Force was a Combat Communications Squadron. Where do you suppose that name came from?
Given that, in the Army and Marines, a duty position is "CQ runner" or "KP" or "tower guard". First Sergeant is a rank, generally E-8. However it can be given to any NCO with a memo written by a O-5 or above to indicate that the person has been awarded the title of First Sergeant and wear the rank, yet still be in the same pay grade (E-7, etc). SOURCE: had to deal with my crappy PSG being the 1SG while we were deployed.
Cool story bro
This does not in any way denigrate the dedication of those troops who get sent to the war IMHO.
Sure it does. Why would anyone respect a tool? The thugs in power certainly don't.
U.S. Air Force veteran speaking.
we have killed innocents and tortured prisoners, but in compared to what and whom?
What meaning is any comparison?
Does it make the people we've tortured and murdered hurt less or feel less dead if we're not AS evil as some other total shitholes?
No they want to restrict a business from selling over sized cups of sugary beverages, just like they restrict the serving sizes of alcoholic beverages.
All of which the Constitution authorizes the government to do....correct?
Oh and your pathetic attempt at linking slavery to Coke sales earns you the highly valued "Twit of the Week" award.
And your blindingly ignorant, short sighted, and stupid apology for fascism earns you the "Traitor to Liberty of the Year" "award."
Secure Boot isn't some conspiracy to get rid of Linux, it's an attempt to try to get rid of physical access == owned.
Thanks Microsoft.... but no thanks. A shotgun (plus Truecrypt) is enough to protect my data.
Yes, registering with MS for $99 (which goes entirely to Verisign) is an insurmountable problem.
Damn right it's insurmountable. You think I'm sending Verisign $99 just to use my own goddamn computer? Fuck that shit. I don't support the security certificate racket. My insecure computer is fine with me, thanks.
Is there anything other than Facebook's inertia holding it back?
Yes.
Is that you?
most users don't care about a company owning their data anyway - so it's not going to happen.
Sure they do.
They just don't care enough to ditch FB because of it.
Give them a real alternative (no, G+ doesn't count), and watch people switch in droves.
3 seconds later on Google:
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV, made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919, and landed June 15,1919, at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, twenty-seven minutes.
The news of the adventure spead like wildfire and the two men were received as heroes in London. For their accomplishment, they were presented with Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill, who was then Britain's Secretary of State. A few days later, both men were knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George V, for recognition of their pioneering achievment.
They don't have Google in your country, asshole? Maybe you should get back to subsistence farming and stop wasting our time with these ridiculous questions. Who is Amelia Earhart? LOL...
If anyone in the US government is, as a private individual, fully supportive of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and has a deeper understanding of what our Founders intended than you or I ever will (unless you are not just an idealist or anarchist and in fact a student of law or possibly a member of Congress), it is Barrack Obama.
LOL
No nigger, it's about freedom and liberty. Don't you get it? Your grandpappy knows what slavery was all about, why the fuck don't you? If somebody is dead set on enslaving your ass....the only way to STOP him is to KILL him!
Your balls must be at least "this big" to fight for your rights. Pussies need not apply
No, the only solution is to get rid of the police state that scapegoats people and singles them out for extra punishment based on their membership of some arbitrary group of "evil" people.
This plan seems to count on the fact that information could be spread to a vast number of people at little cost to owners accounts spawning the last couple of hops.
FTFY. Emphasis added
Fact is, in the US for example,
Stop apologizing for despots and their machinations of evil. You're a traitor to liberty; to your own self. The words you quoted are nothing more than tools used to enslave, and you yourself are a tool for spreading them.
Here's something more relevant:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
These words were written by those who were sick and tired of the very same slavery, and vowed to put an end to it.
Unfortunately their weak-kneed, pants pissing children and grandchildren let the tyranny creep back in, generation after generation, resulting in the traitorous words you so blindly copied and pasted for us above. Stop being a tool for your government masters, you disgusting worm.
Samuel Adams said it best:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
I'm also not entirely clear on why choosing a certain profession means that you are entitled to stop working after five successful years and never have to work again.
If the state of the world, the people, the economy, i.e. the stars, all align to ensure that a certain individual has something that the rest of humanity desperately, desperately wants....that person is likely to become rich beyond all imagination....or at least, have the opportunity to be.
Titanic, Avatar and Avengers each costed the better part of a quarter billion dollars to make as well, and yet they made massive profits for the companies making them. Whether you think they're good movies or not -- you can't argue with that being good business.
Sure I can...as a businessman who actually has a fucking brain on his shoulders, as well as morals, which prevent me from doing such unethical things as, oh I dunno...outright stealing people's money by promising an awesome film then delivering a shitpile like Battleship.
In the long term, stupidity leads to failure, always. Anyone who disagrees is likely a moron who will go down with the ship.
The point is that Hollywood is going to keep trying to censor the internet, because of people like you
Really?? Because of "people like him"? Or because of their greed and lust for power and control?
That has NEVER been one of your "rights"
Clearly you know nothing about humanity. Try taking an intro anthropology course in college some time, dweeb.