Better tech unsupported by management and marketing is left (almost) to languish in the lab. "Brillant." Why do their directors still have jobs?:-P Bringing tech to market is what they're supposed to do, yes?
Also, you used the paranoid "New World Order" terminology, so unless you can reassure me that you're not a conspiracy nut, I think we're done here.
Nah, I'm libertarian or Objectivist or something. Mostly computer geek. I use my systems knowledge to look at the universe, and the system I see that civilization's built for itself just makes me gag./sbin/shutdown -r now
Irrelevant kneejerk "USA!" defence. I wasn't accusing USA. Nutjobs come from all over. Tim McVey, Muhammad Attah, A. Hitler,...
Either you've never studied any cold-war era history, or you have a really bad memory.
I assure you, neither are true.
Present World Govt. Inc. is attempting to prevent the sort of thing that touched off WWI (lone unknown nutjob tosses a grenade into a carriage) by datamining all personal communications. That will turn out well for all, I'm sure. Apparently, individual freedom and privacy are detrimental to the security interests of 21st C. states.
If you think Obama is shaking in his boots at the prospect of having the White House invaded by a bunch of slashdot nerds, you've been sniffing too much computer duster.
Well actually, that is what's going on. s/slashdot/muslim extremist/... Muhammad Attah and compadres hung out in the same mosque together, managed to implement a plan to train a few guys to fly passenger jets, and pulled it off killing ca. 5k civilians, and another few hundred k in ensuing wars. One of them had even already been busted and reported on by an FBI agent, but she was ignored.
The TSA+DHS and all the "security theatre" is the result. They're more afraid of individual wingnuts now than they were of the Soviets. Just imagine, having to take off your shoes and being strip searched before boarding a plane! Now, they're driving the strip search machines down main St. Yippee.
Demanding transparent access into all possible forms of personal communication is pretty paranoid behaviour in my book. 'Sounds like the *AA has taken over US govt.
I thought it a perfectly reasonable reaction. Look at the tech news lately. Every third article is Apple related. Why, because sheeple buy the stuff. It has cache'.
I was reading something just yesterday where a fanboi piped up and spouted, "Well, anyone with an iPhone would just...", followed by someone else asking, "iPhone? Any phone can do that, including Droid. Why iPhone?"
Why do Republicans equate limited government with civil rights. Arguably the largest civil rights movements in the last century (sufferage, civil rights movement, gay rights, creation vs evolution in schoold, brown vs board of educaiton, etc) have ALL come to fruition from larger government involvement, not less.
I'm neither Republican nor US-ian, but I challenge this. I'd argue all of those were efforts on the part of individuals to demand that their gov't enforce the protection of their rights. What right to deny the vote to women or minorities? What right to say who can love each other? To say who can go to what public school?
Bad laws written by men made (eg.) MLK stand up and demand change. It took men like MLK to slap gov't over the head to get them to do what's right. Ditto Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, and Jesse Owens (the latter two even doing it to the Nazis!:-).
"creation vs evolution in school" is Texas fault/albatross. Good luck with that.
I like the "Ethel" approach (I may have got her name wrong; sorry $ethel).
The story was there was this great tester lady, and when she found a bug she pounced on you "Ah hah!" like. She really took her job seriously.
The developers loved her. Go figger.
No, you can't definitively test your code. That's what users / testers are for. You can only ensure it works, within your limited space of $works. That's where $ethel comes in.
Thought experiment: what if the Government removes its monopoly on force, either in the name of deregulation or because the government wants to outsource that part of its work?
Feudalism, in theory. But, (is it fourth amendment?), if everyone's packin' heat,...
Paying off for who? According TFA, the Portuguese government sold off the rights to the electricitiy to private companies. The government is also paying a massive subsidy to the private companies for 15 years.
Ah. Business as usual. No matter where you go, there you are. Regulatory capture, cronyism, nepotism, corporatism, back-room dealing, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions", & etc.
... they were purely giving bad people information that is leading directly to the painful and ugly deaths of good people.
Uh huh. Who lost control of this data? Imagine the chilling effect for the future? Who's going to want to support the effort if you know the US isn't going to take good care of your private info?
This ShootSelfInFoot bigtime for coalition forces.
RTFM and JFGI (google the acronyms if you don't know what they stand for).
In a word, no. I'll guess, though: "Read the Fine/F-ing Manual" and "Just F-ing Give In."
Do you know what acronyms are for? They're for shortening or minimizing what you need to write to put your point across. I don't think you're getting the point. "Read the Fine/F-ing Manual and Just F-ing Give In" is shorter than what you wrote.
On a side note (though related), it sure is interesting to see the diverse range of composition skills exhibited by all these people who purport to have earned a higher degree.
So, so many of you have missed the point of this discussion. Diplomas get you past HR, possibly after educating you too. Go multi-tens of thousands of dollars in debt, all just to get past/impress HR drones?!? That's what all you graduates think is an effective expenditure of time and money?
Replying to my own post, yeah, I take my telescope camping, and if I saw a killer asteroid coming, it'd be neat to beam the news in, but really! Remaining connected while camping? Get a Winnibago and a trailer park plugin. They may even have a pool and playground for the kids.
I tried to wade through a lot of the comments to this, but gave up half way. Sorry if this's been asked.
YOU'RE CAMPING! WTF do you want to be connected for?!? Camping is supposed to be synonymous with "getting away from it all." You're doing it wrong! I don't care if it's the 21st Century; that's no excuse.
As for the other three thousand of of you helping him to make this happen, fsck! Geeky's one thing. Pathological behaviour in any realm is inherently dangerous. You need help!
"And you're a sad little dweeb. I'd hate FB, too, if I was as friendless as you."
That's about the fifth time today I've read an FB fan accusing its detractors of being "friendless." You do realize it's possible to have friends sans FB?
Slashdot Mirror
Better tech unsupported by management and marketing is left (almost) to languish in the lab. "Brillant." Why do their directors still have jobs? :-P Bringing tech to market is what they're supposed to do, yes?
Coalition forces use a computer game to learn to fight as their opponents fight. Might be useful intel?
This decision should be re-thunk.
"Flight Simulator" for War in Afghanistan; what's wrong with that? Mind the innocent civvies, please.
Give 'em the game. It'll be good for them.
I do not understand why the N900 is not more popular. I'd love to have one, from what I've read, yet typical reviews I've seen pan it. WTF? :-(
Would you people please stop making up TLAs!?! WTF is RvB?!? Grumble, mumble, ...
Okay, you're a pedant. I submit.
Nah, I'm libertarian or Objectivist or something. Mostly computer geek. I use my systems knowledge to look at the universe, and the system I see that civilization's built for itself just makes me gag. /sbin/shutdown -r now
Irrelevant kneejerk "USA!" defence. I wasn't accusing USA. Nutjobs come from all over. Tim McVey, Muhammad Attah, A. Hitler, ...
I assure you, neither are true.
Present World Govt. Inc. is attempting to prevent the sort of thing that touched off WWI (lone unknown nutjob tosses a grenade into a carriage) by datamining all personal communications. That will turn out well for all, I'm sure. Apparently, individual freedom and privacy are detrimental to the security interests of 21st C. states.
Sucks to be us.
Well actually, that is what's going on. s/slashdot/muslim extremist/ ... Muhammad Attah and compadres hung out in the same mosque together, managed to implement a plan to train a few guys to fly passenger jets, and pulled it off killing ca. 5k civilians, and another few hundred k in ensuing wars. One of them had even already been busted and reported on by an FBI agent, but she was ignored.
The TSA+DHS and all the "security theatre" is the result. They're more afraid of individual wingnuts now than they were of the Soviets. Just imagine, having to take off your shoes and being strip searched before boarding a plane! Now, they're driving the strip search machines down main St. Yippee.
Demanding transparent access into all possible forms of personal communication is pretty paranoid behaviour in my book. 'Sounds like the *AA has taken over US govt.
I thought it a perfectly reasonable reaction. Look at the tech news lately. Every third article is Apple related. Why, because sheeple buy the stuff. It has cache'.
I was reading something just yesterday where a fanboi piped up and spouted, "Well, anyone with an iPhone would just ...", followed by someone else asking, "iPhone? Any phone can do that, including Droid. Why iPhone?"
I suspect astroturfing.
FTC?
I'm neither Republican nor US-ian, but I challenge this. I'd argue all of those were efforts on the part of individuals to demand that their gov't enforce the protection of their rights. What right to deny the vote to women or minorities? What right to say who can love each other? To say who can go to what public school?
Bad laws written by men made (eg.) MLK stand up and demand change. It took men like MLK to slap gov't over the head to get them to do what's right. Ditto Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, and Jesse Owens (the latter two even doing it to the Nazis! :-).
"creation vs evolution in school" is Texas fault/albatross. Good luck with that.
Whoosh. It means "what" in Spanish. "Que pasa? What's happ'nin'?"
How long you been in this racket, sonny? "dict definitively".
BTW, pistols at dawn (or whatever)! I don't do Windows.
I like the "Ethel" approach (I may have got her name wrong; sorry $ethel).
The story was there was this great tester lady, and when she found a bug she pounced on you "Ah hah!" like. She really took her job seriously.
The developers loved her. Go figger.
No, you can't definitively test your code. That's what users / testers are for. You can only ensure it works, within your limited space of $works. That's where $ethel comes in.
Feudalism, in theory. But, (is it fourth amendment?), if everyone's packin' heat, ...
Would you accept a parallel example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit
Not that I consider GM equiv. to UF (I like Chevy's), but the potential's always there.
Ah. Business as usual. No matter where you go, there you are. Regulatory capture, cronyism, nepotism, corporatism, back-room dealing, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions", & etc.
The summary says they're now an energy exporter. So, their long-term investment is paying off. What's the gripe?
Whether it'll pay itself off in time for the actuaries to be happy with the deal's another thing.
Holy crap, is your legal system is fsck'ed up, or what? Wow.
Linux + procmail + bogofilter + mutt
I've been posting to Usenet for decades not hiding my email address.
Stop using Windows and you might learn something useful. Using Windows, you're relegated to "trying to hide." Good luck with that.
You're saying /. users wanting to be followed or making themselves able to be followed, is a good thing? Tell me why.
Uh huh. Who lost control of this data? Imagine the chilling effect for the future? Who's going to want to support the effort if you know the US isn't going to take good care of your private info?
This ShootSelfInFoot bigtime for coalition forces.
They confiscated a number of phones from that tor developer, so I'll assume they've got the email addys of the entire org.
Soon to be released to Wikileaks? :-)
In a word, no. I'll guess, though: "Read the Fine/F-ing Manual" and "Just F-ing Give In."
Do you know what acronyms are for? They're for shortening or minimizing what you need to write to put your point across. I don't think you're getting the point. "Read the Fine/F-ing Manual and Just F-ing Give In" is shorter than what you wrote.
On a side note (though related), it sure is interesting to see the diverse range of composition skills exhibited by all these people who purport to have earned a higher degree.
So, so many of you have missed the point of this discussion. Diplomas get you past HR, possibly after educating you too. Go multi-tens of thousands of dollars in debt, all just to get past/impress HR drones?!? That's what all you graduates think is an effective expenditure of time and money?
Replying to my own post, yeah, I take my telescope camping, and if I saw a killer asteroid coming, it'd be neat to beam the news in, but really! Remaining connected while camping? Get a Winnibago and a trailer park plugin. They may even have a pool and playground for the kids.
Sheesh.
I tried to wade through a lot of the comments to this, but gave up half way. Sorry if this's been asked.
YOU'RE CAMPING! WTF do you want to be connected for?!? Camping is supposed to be synonymous with "getting away from it all." You're doing it wrong! I don't care if it's the 21st Century; that's no excuse.
As for the other three thousand of of you helping him to make this happen, fsck! Geeky's one thing. Pathological behaviour in any realm is inherently dangerous. You need help!
"And you're a sad little dweeb. I'd hate FB, too, if I was as friendless as you."
That's about the fifth time today I've read an FB fan accusing its detractors of being "friendless." You do realize it's possible to have friends sans FB?