Whats wrong with sexy female scientists - they have them in movies.
My favourite person in the whole world is a female (computer) scientist, and it irks me no end that she has no interest in me of a sexual nature. Moan. Drat.
Personally, I think smart girls are sexy - end of story.
Personally, I think the only girls worth even considering are smart girls. You can have the rest. I won't miss the loss.
OBSTRef: Seven of Nine (assimilate me already, damnit!), Jeri Ryan! Drool.
I called you an asshole for acting like an asshole. You called GGP an asshole because he didn't know enough.
It's a fair cop. I probably did come across as an asshole, but he asked for it, and deserved it. No, it wasn't that he "didn't know enough." It was that he was lazy! FFS, Google?!? "Uh, what's that?"
I prefer "nutbar", if you're going to fling epithets. I wear that one proudly.
You need to watch Mythbusters more often. If you blow enough on your own sail, it spills out of the sail and pushes you forward.
Also, the jets coming out of heated comets don't effectively change their trajectory so there's no reason to think our pathetic little toys will have any similar affect on a mega-tonage chunk of iron flying at us at several tens of thousands of miles an hour.
You also ought to read up on trajectory theory. A small change in the early part of flight translates into a massive change at its end.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you argue a point - by making personal attacks on someone you've never met, on a public forum.
Really? I told him exactly what he should have done, even supplying a link to results that he should've found by himself!. Look at what I had to work with. "Citation needed." Fuck off!
If you can't even use a search engine, you shouldn't even be at a computer. Go back to kindergarten and start over. I expect better from my fellow homo sapiens. That kind of crap makes the rest of us look bad.
There was a story a while ago this year about battleships with lasers powerful enough to burn through 20 feet of steel in 1 second. These are nuclear (under)powered battleships with enough juice to do this.
I know this might be a tad predictable, but... Citation needed.
I hope this is a bit predictable too. Fuck off!
If you're here, you're interested in technology. Anyone in this century who's interested in technology should be well able to use a web search engine. Asshole!
Try this: "laser military" in ixquick.com yields this for starters.
They leave me idle. I spend over 80% of my time asking "Hey, is there anything I can do?"
Hey mon, you're in a perfect position to contribute to FLOSS. Pick an interesting project, or learn a new tech/language. Learn something on your boneheaded employer's dime. Have fun, and do good stuff.:-) I'll sing your praises when you do.
I would say someone who has several languages under their belt is a better candidate (if they don't already know the language) than someone who has only worked in one their entire life.
What would you consider a "decent time frame"? A month? I'd consider that acceptable. OO is not that steep of a climb for someone who understands the underlying equipment. RAM is RAM, disk is disk, variables are variables, and functions or methods are functions or methods.
I hate the idea of working with Cobol, but I wouldn't necessarily hold that against anyone. Lots of people say ugly things about my favourite language (perl). Ignorance is bliss, they say.
For maximum immunity to grammar nerds I opt for the more modern web contractions like "gonna" and "mustabeen".
I am somewhat of a grammar nerd, and I approve of your theory. I have no qualms against evolving the language. English is a mongrel language, after all. We steal from all the others and mangle to taste.
Still, there are right and wrong ways to do it. I reserve the right to complain about the latter.:-) My latest bugaboo: news presenters who start every sentence with, "Now,...".
The old work contract implied loyalty in both directions.
The old work contract was formed against the background of a strong labor movement
Oh, BS. I'll bet money on there never having been more than 30% of the workforce unionized. I'll grant you that that 30% may have influenced the rest of the employers, but that's all.
The old contract for most was with employers who valued employees who valued jobs with employers like them. Outsourcing, the tax code, psychotic HR practices, and H1B (& etc.) soured it for the employees, so now there is no trust left, which is why we have to shop for raises, never caring about our alegiances to current employers.
There's plenty of people out here who will work well for you on the old rules. The new rules don't work for anyone. Stop listening to the MBAs and finance and HR types, and start talking to your valued people instead. They're the sharp end.
and workers themselves, who all too often turn down good jobs at good wages
Unfortunately, a company's definition of "good wages" is all too often directly at odds with what the workers themselves would consider to be good.
That's also true of the "good jobs" angle. When I think of the things I want in a job, then see what they have to offer, it's like I'm talking to aliens. Mind numbing boredom, doing stuff that doesn't need to be done with !@#$ I hate using, all for no reason other than some manager wants to go that way, so there! We're supposed to be knowledge workers, so why don't they use our knowledge to find out what needs to be done and how best to do it?
I'm on strike. When they start to make a lick of sense again, I'll start looking around again.
Does anyone seriously believe the founders of Wikileaks still have any control whatsoever of such a valuable source of information about leakers?
Yes. There is still hope out here. Some very smart and reputable people signed on in the past, and lowly proles like me find it difficult to easily discount their action.
Strip away all the politics and personalities, the *idea* (WikiLeaks) is a good one. Execution may not be perfect so far, but the goal (holding bastards feet to the fire, shining the light of day on their nefarious deeds) is a positive one.
science is pretty much at the point where us males are irrelevant and unnecessary, we're not yet at the point where females are
Really? So, what is it you're going to use to impregnate that egg? I also wouldn't count out the possibility that we may invent artificial wombs in the next few decades, freeing both genders of all the complicated bits of childbirth.
To some extent, I can't figure out what to do from a terror standpoint with high accuracy GPS positions that wouldn't be just as scary with low precision.
How unimaginative you are. High accuracy would enable you to fly a swarm of C4 laden RC planes into the center court of the Pentagon, or to the front doors of Congress.
I've read of plenty of battles where the opposing sides were a lot closer than one klick away from each other. Should the "fast movers" take out their guys, your guys, or does it matter?
I've few quibbles with your reply, and I thank you for your insights. However,...
I'm amazed at how cheaply some of you value human life,...
Do you really think that a 17 year old could not put the following information together and not come up with the possibility that al-Banna might be al-Qaeda and maybe ask? 1. al-Banna wrote anti-American articles that were published by "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula"
I think I've written things which might be construed as "anti-American", and they were "published" on far more visible fora (/.). Additionally, I think you're expecting *way* too much from a seventeen year old. I was a doofus at that age, barely out of diapers in my mind.
Comparing al-Banaa and al-Awlaki with [your] father is irrelevant as there [is] much more information available on al-Qaeda than your father.
Perhaps, yet I've never heard of al-Banaa before this. I would've needed to look him up before this to know about him, yet I've never heard of him. Yesterday, he was as obscure to me as my dad is to you.
Innocent people should not be [used] as human shields and those who do are cowards and lower than scum.
Strongly agree.
However, targetting seventeen year old kids for drone strikes? I think that's a waste of a perfectly good bomb. YMMV.
Some of us [remember] what America was before the degenerates took over in the 1960's. [cue generic 1950's "Pleasantville" music]
1. One could leave the keys in the ignition in the car with [no] fear.
Yes. Car theft was invented ca. 2009, right?
2. One could leave the doors unlocked with no fear.
Ditto theft from cars?
3. Children stayed outside to play until dark with no fear.
Garden raiding. DST solved that.
4. The dollar was on the gold standard making money was a safe store of value.
Pseudo-safe.
5. Organized labor fought for reasonable wages and wage inflation created the middle class.
Too bad Organized Crime was the union leaders' masters, rifling through the retirement funds, making backroom deals with the employers.
6. Young adult males were subject to conscription which kept them from becoming antisocial.
Yeah, they made the psychotic instead. "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box!" Add on another thirty years of PTSD for the survivors, and a couple or three countries ravaged by napalm, agent orange, and B-52 carpet bombing, followed by commie (or worse; Pol Pot) rule.
7. Lawful discrimination compelled minorities to assimilate from name changes to rhinoplasty.
Sammie Davis Junior didn't do all that badly.
8. The unborn were protected by the states because the uterus had not yet been federalized away from the states.
Yeah, let's enslave pregnant women and their birth control defficient boyfriends instead. A generation of broken families, single moms with multiple kids on the dole,... Ah, heaven.
The Golden Age of America was brought to you by all The Racist Authoritarian Scumbags®.
... then one day someone will come to school with a gun and [you're] going to pay.
This's what's wrong with you Yanquis. You bring a gun when all you need is a baseball bat. Lay him up in a hospital bed with broken kneecaps for a couple of months to ponder his stupidity. He'll worship you when/if he walks again. What's the point of ending up on Death Row to teach a bully a lesson?
The SWAT team doesn't show up when you bring a baseball bat to school either. Sheesh.
... Obama's Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) has claimed that Sadam had WMDs shipped to Syria...
... there was NO WMD's, nothing. It was a lie by Bush and his cronies...
Just curious, but did you bother to check out the Clapper articles that he kindly pointed us to, or are you determined to just stick with the party line?
I see this as a valid reprisal against Iran's refusal to cooperate with UN weapon inspections or whatever.
Sadaam Hussein was fighting UN weapons inspectors tooth and nail, yet he didn't even have WMDs. Perhaps he just didn't want his adversaries to know how weak he was? Considering all the sabre rattling the US's done recently, I'd be holding my cards close to my chest too were I Iran.
As far as I know, power plants are not connected to the internet.
According to those who showed up for a related discussion a month or two ago, this cannot be assumed today. Management wants to be able to monitor this stuff from their home peecee.
The virus thingy only attacks powerplants. So there is nothing for it to do if it is on the internet.
Stuxnet "walked" across the airgap on a contractor's usb key.
Correct me if I am wrong, I think this is all just media sensationalism about 'omg the hackerz!".
The last I heard, it set back Iran's uranium enrichment program two years. I imagine it likely fanned the flames of Iran's policy makers, so when the hammer eventually falls, it's *really* going to fall. Good work, cyberwarriors! Gun, meet foot.
First of all, lumping Iran and North Korea in with Iraq (who Bush planned to invade) served no good purpose.
Ah, you don't understand how the US works. Much like, "Invasion is the means by which the US teaches its citizens geography", invasions are also the beta testing ground for US munitions manufacturers. Does stealth work? Invade Iraq. Bunker busters? Afghanistan. Does mobile infantry help? Invade VietNam. Does jet tech. help? Korea. Etc.
I'm not really sure how Afghanistan fits in, but "Combat Hospital" is my favourite show (if that means anything). HAND.
If good national health care is unconstitutional then obviously you need to ammend your constitution.
That's how solid thinking is done! If the sound rules get in the way of something I think is right, the rules must be wrong!
You're both wrong, and right.
Of course, good health care should not be unconstitutional, but Obama's legislated solution to implement it, is wrong. Forcing individuals to buy health insurance? Who does that help but insurance companies?
As for your Constitution, yes, it's inadequate for the times and does need to be amended for many reasons. If you disagree, you're either asleep or delusional. Of course, how to get your psychopathic legislators to think of YOUR interests instead of their deep pocketed benefactors may be a big problem in the way of that.
I'm just a Canuck looking in, hoping you'll meltdown sooner instead of later in order to just get it all over with. The suspense is nauseating.
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Whats wrong with sexy female scientists - they have them in movies.
My favourite person in the whole world is a female (computer) scientist, and it irks me no end that she has no interest in me of a sexual nature. Moan. Drat.
Personally, I think smart girls are sexy - end of story.
Personally, I think the only girls worth even considering are smart girls. You can have the rest. I won't miss the loss.
OBSTRef: Seven of Nine (assimilate me already, damnit!), Jeri Ryan! Drool.
I called you an asshole for acting like an asshole. You called GGP an asshole because he didn't know enough.
It's a fair cop. I probably did come across as an asshole, but he asked for it, and deserved it. No, it wasn't that he "didn't know enough." It was that he was lazy! FFS, Google?!? "Uh, what's that?"
I prefer "nutbar", if you're going to fling epithets. I wear that one proudly.
It's kinda like blowing on your own sail.
You need to watch Mythbusters more often. If you blow enough on your own sail, it spills out of the sail and pushes you forward.
Also, the jets coming out of heated comets don't effectively change their trajectory so there's no reason to think our pathetic little toys will have any similar affect on a mega-tonage chunk of iron flying at us at several tens of thousands of miles an hour.
You also ought to read up on trajectory theory. A small change in the early part of flight translates into a massive change at its end.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you argue a point - by making personal attacks on someone you've never met, on a public forum.
Really? I told him exactly what he should have done, even supplying a link to results that he should've found by himself!. Look at what I had to work with. "Citation needed." Fuck off!
If you can't even use a search engine, you shouldn't even be at a computer. Go back to kindergarten and start over. I expect better from my fellow homo sapiens. That kind of crap makes the rest of us look bad.
There was a story a while ago this year about battleships with lasers powerful enough to burn through 20 feet of steel in 1 second. These are nuclear (under)powered battleships with enough juice to do this.
I know this might be a tad predictable, but... Citation needed.
I hope this is a bit predictable too. Fuck off!
If you're here, you're interested in technology. Anyone in this century who's interested in technology should be well able to use a web search engine. Asshole!
Try this: "laser military" in ixquick.com yields this for starters.
Stop being such a fucking pussy!
They leave me idle. I spend over 80% of my time asking "Hey, is there anything I can do?"
Hey mon, you're in a perfect position to contribute to FLOSS. Pick an interesting project, or learn a new tech/language. Learn something on your boneheaded employer's dime. Have fun, and do good stuff. :-) I'll sing your praises when you do.
I would say someone who has several languages under their belt is a better candidate (if they don't already know the language) than someone who has only worked in one their entire life.
What would you consider a "decent time frame"? A month? I'd consider that acceptable. OO is not that steep of a climb for someone who understands the underlying equipment. RAM is RAM, disk is disk, variables are variables, and functions or methods are functions or methods.
I hate the idea of working with Cobol, but I wouldn't necessarily hold that against anyone. Lots of people say ugly things about my favourite language (perl). Ignorance is bliss, they say.
I ran into a job posting wanting 10 years of Server 2008 experience.
Holy fucking hell. That's just ...
Holy fucking hell! Jeebus. I'd apply for that just to meet the amoeba that posted that requirement.
Stunning.
For maximum immunity to grammar nerds I opt for the more modern web contractions like "gonna" and "mustabeen".
I am somewhat of a grammar nerd, and I approve of your theory. I have no qualms against evolving the language. English is a mongrel language, after all. We steal from all the others and mangle to taste.
Still, there are right and wrong ways to do it. I reserve the right to complain about the latter. :-) My latest bugaboo: news presenters who start every sentence with, "Now, ...".
Carry on.
The old work contract implied loyalty in both directions.
The old work contract was formed against the background of a strong labor movement
Oh, BS. I'll bet money on there never having been more than 30% of the workforce unionized. I'll grant you that that 30% may have influenced the rest of the employers, but that's all.
The old contract for most was with employers who valued employees who valued jobs with employers like them. Outsourcing, the tax code, psychotic HR practices, and H1B (& etc.) soured it for the employees, so now there is no trust left, which is why we have to shop for raises, never caring about our alegiances to current employers.
There's plenty of people out here who will work well for you on the old rules. The new rules don't work for anyone. Stop listening to the MBAs and finance and HR types, and start talking to your valued people instead. They're the sharp end.
They must of been told
What does it mean for a person to "of been" told something?
That's what you get when someone hears a contraction ("must've"), then tries to use it in written form.
and workers themselves, who all too often turn down good jobs at good wages
Unfortunately, a company's definition of "good wages" is all too often directly at odds with what the workers themselves would consider to be good.
That's also true of the "good jobs" angle. When I think of the things I want in a job, then see what they have to offer, it's like I'm talking to aliens. Mind numbing boredom, doing stuff that doesn't need to be done with !@#$ I hate using, all for no reason other than some manager wants to go that way, so there! We're supposed to be knowledge workers, so why don't they use our knowledge to find out what needs to be done and how best to do it?
I'm on strike. When they start to make a lick of sense again, I'll start looking around again.
Does anyone seriously believe the founders of Wikileaks still have any control whatsoever of such a valuable source of information about leakers?
Yes. There is still hope out here. Some very smart and reputable people signed on in the past, and lowly proles like me find it difficult to easily discount their action.
Strip away all the politics and personalities, the *idea* (WikiLeaks) is a good one. Execution may not be perfect so far, but the goal (holding bastards feet to the fire, shining the light of day on their nefarious deeds) is a positive one.
Well, that's the way I think of it, at least.
science is pretty much at the point where us males are irrelevant and unnecessary, we're not yet at the point where females are
Really? So, what is it you're going to use to impregnate that egg? I also wouldn't count out the possibility that we may invent artificial wombs in the next few decades, freeing both genders of all the complicated bits of childbirth.
95% of tablet hardware is locked-down to run Linux exclusively, excluding the real minority of NetBSD users.
So, fork cyanogenmod to drop in *BSD instead of Linux when you jailbreak your phone.
Why do Google and Linux oppress software freedom?
How much do you get paid to spout BS like this?
Keeping people safe and fighting crime is worth the violation of privacy.
No, they're not. They can be done without violating anyone's privacy, as everyone knows. We've been doing it for a very long time.
To some extent, I can't figure out what to do from a terror standpoint with high accuracy GPS positions that wouldn't be just as scary with low precision.
How unimaginative you are. High accuracy would enable you to fly a swarm of C4 laden RC planes into the center court of the Pentagon, or to the front doors of Congress.
I've read of plenty of battles where the opposing sides were a lot closer than one klick away from each other. Should the "fast movers" take out their guys, your guys, or does it matter?
I've few quibbles with your reply, and I thank you for your insights. However, ...
I'm amazed at how cheaply some of you value human life, ...
Do you really think that a 17 year old could not put the following information together and not come up with the possibility that al-Banna might be al-Qaeda and maybe ask?
1. al-Banna wrote anti-American articles that were published by "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula"
I think I've written things which might be construed as "anti-American", and they were "published" on far more visible fora (/.). Additionally, I think you're expecting *way* too much from a seventeen year old. I was a doofus at that age, barely out of diapers in my mind.
Comparing al-Banaa and al-Awlaki with [your] father is irrelevant as there [is] much more information available on al-Qaeda than your father.
Perhaps, yet I've never heard of al-Banaa before this. I would've needed to look him up before this to know about him, yet I've never heard of him. Yesterday, he was as obscure to me as my dad is to you.
Innocent people should not be [used] as human shields and those who do are cowards and lower than scum.
Strongly agree.
However, targetting seventeen year old kids for drone strikes? I think that's a waste of a perfectly good bomb. YMMV.
Some of us [remember] what America was before the degenerates took over in the 1960's.
[cue generic 1950's "Pleasantville" music]
1. One could leave the keys in the ignition in the car with [no] fear.
Yes. Car theft was invented ca. 2009, right?
2. One could leave the doors unlocked with no fear.
Ditto theft from cars?
3. Children stayed outside to play until dark with no fear.
Garden raiding. DST solved that.
4. The dollar was on the gold standard making money was a safe store of value.
Pseudo-safe.
5. Organized labor fought for reasonable wages and wage inflation created the middle class.
Too bad Organized Crime was the union leaders' masters, rifling through the retirement funds, making backroom deals with the employers.
6. Young adult males were subject to conscription which kept them from becoming antisocial.
Yeah, they made the psychotic instead. "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box!" Add on another thirty years of PTSD for the survivors, and a couple or three countries ravaged by napalm, agent orange, and B-52 carpet bombing, followed by commie (or worse; Pol Pot) rule.
7. Lawful discrimination compelled minorities to assimilate from name changes to rhinoplasty.
Sammie Davis Junior didn't do all that badly.
8. The unborn were protected by the states because the uterus had not yet been federalized away from the states.
Yeah, let's enslave pregnant women and their birth control defficient boyfriends instead. A generation of broken families, single moms with multiple kids on the dole, ... Ah, heaven.
The Golden Age of America was brought to you by all The Racist Authoritarian Scumbags®.
No, it was survivors of WWII.
... then one day someone will come to school with a gun and [you're] going to pay.
This's what's wrong with you Yanquis. You bring a gun when all you need is a baseball bat. Lay him up in a hospital bed with broken kneecaps for a couple of months to ponder his stupidity. He'll worship you when/if he walks again. What's the point of ending up on Death Row to teach a bully a lesson?
The SWAT team doesn't show up when you bring a baseball bat to school either. Sheesh.
... Obama's Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) has claimed that Sadam had WMDs shipped to Syria ...
... there was NO WMD's, nothing. It was a lie by Bush and his cronies ...
Just curious, but did you bother to check out the Clapper articles that he kindly pointed us to, or are you determined to just stick with the party line?
I see this as a valid reprisal against Iran's refusal to cooperate with UN weapon inspections or whatever.
Sadaam Hussein was fighting UN weapons inspectors tooth and nail, yet he didn't even have WMDs. Perhaps he just didn't want his adversaries to know how weak he was? Considering all the sabre rattling the US's done recently, I'd be holding my cards close to my chest too were I Iran.
As far as I know, power plants are not connected to the internet.
According to those who showed up for a related discussion a month or two ago, this cannot be assumed today. Management wants to be able to monitor this stuff from their home peecee.
The virus thingy only attacks powerplants. So there is nothing for it to do if it is on the internet.
Stuxnet "walked" across the airgap on a contractor's usb key.
Correct me if I am wrong, I think this is all just media sensationalism about 'omg the hackerz!".
The last I heard, it set back Iran's uranium enrichment program two years. I imagine it likely fanned the flames of Iran's policy makers, so when the hammer eventually falls, it's *really* going to fall. Good work, cyberwarriors! Gun, meet foot.
First of all, lumping Iran and North Korea in with Iraq (who Bush planned to invade) served no good purpose.
Ah, you don't understand how the US works. Much like, "Invasion is the means by which the US teaches its citizens geography", invasions are also the beta testing ground for US munitions manufacturers. Does stealth work? Invade Iraq. Bunker busters? Afghanistan. Does mobile infantry help? Invade VietNam. Does jet tech. help? Korea. Etc.
I'm not really sure how Afghanistan fits in, but "Combat Hospital" is my favourite show (if that means anything). HAND.
If good national health care is unconstitutional then obviously you need to ammend your constitution.
That's how solid thinking is done! If the sound rules get in the way of something I think is right, the rules must be wrong!
You're both wrong, and right.
Of course, good health care should not be unconstitutional, but Obama's legislated solution to implement it, is wrong. Forcing individuals to buy health insurance? Who does that help but insurance companies?
As for your Constitution, yes, it's inadequate for the times and does need to be amended for many reasons. If you disagree, you're either asleep or delusional. Of course, how to get your psychopathic legislators to think of YOUR interests instead of their deep pocketed benefactors may be a big problem in the way of that.
I'm just a Canuck looking in, hoping you'll meltdown sooner instead of later in order to just get it all over with. The suspense is nauseating.