> Child sex crime is horrible. > No argument there. I have children. The mere idea indeed, horrifies me. > But...
Why do you have to preface your opinion with this disclaimer? Are you so afraid that any position that doesn't sound like you are "tough on pedophiles" will get you branded as a pedophile yourself?
This is exactly the attitude that permits politicians and law enforcement to get away with bullying people into handing over their rights. If you don't agree with this law you must be one of the pedophiles yourself!
>... in military application? Robo-cops, emergency responders, and others of similar categories of future application will most definitely benefit from advanced imaging. HUD capabilities as well -- non-disruptive arrows near the peripheral regions of your vision guiding you to the nearest McDonalds when you ask for it. It won't stop there, "Aps" for your new vision capabilities will spring up -- virtual retinal compass, retinal level (yes, you only need two hands to make sure that picture frame is straight), and the list goes on. Oh, and don't forget the ever loving popular - pop-ups.
Oh great. Then/b/ will be able to hack into my visual cortex and superimpose goatse on everything I am seeing.
The ice storm left more than 700,000 people without power in and near the Appalachians, including 630,000 customers in Georgia, 358,000 in South Carolina, 328,000 in North Carolina and 13,000 in Virginia. It took over a week to restore power. Several emergency shelters also were opened.[5][6] Electricity was not restored in many places until 20 December 2005, by which time one death was blamed on the outage.[7]"
Yeah, sounds like mass murder rampaging across the nation. Not.
> You are going to need security from the MS13 punk who lives down the street from you when the power grid has been down 1-2 days.
On August 14, 2003 the power grid was down for 1-2 days. I didn't see any punks looting or attacking. But my neighborhood did come out of their houses for once and everyone got to meet each other. The kids got to know each other and had a great time playing instead of hiding inside from the big bad world. We made lasting friends and the neighborhood has been better for it in the years since that.
I love the idea. I am ready to sign up when some of my favorite content creators are using it. Until then, however, there is no reason for me to join. I know... chicken and egg...
The Flattr web site needs a list of content creators using the service!
What do you call it when you have 1,000,000 birds going in 10,000 directions, all joining, leaving, peeling off in other directions, and never actually meeting each other or knowing each others identity along the way? Never actually knowing how many other birds, if any, are traveling in the same direction as they are at any moment?
Sounds like a group you may or may not already be a member of. How would you know?
No, he's suggesting a program that runs first under Windows to make a list of every file on the disk along with a checksum, then runs under Linux to make a list of every file on the disk along with a checksum. If the lists differ there is likely a root-kit hiding itself when running Windows.
The meme called "Anonymous" (it's isn't a "group") can't have a spokesperson because there is no official "group", no "membership", no shared beliefs, no secret-handshake. Someone gets an idea to do something, and posts the idea on several popular websites. Anyone who agrees the idea is a good one and takes the suggested action is, for that moment, part of "Anonymous". An hour later someone posts a different idea, some different people agree with that one and take some action and for that moment THEY are "Anonymous".
Some people who may or may not have ever joined in on suggested ideas under the banner of "Anonymous" understand that there is strength in the concept of NOT having any set membership or agenda that can be attacked, responded to, or replied to. Although I, myself, have never participated in any actions proposed by anyone under the banner Anonymous, I can see that this can be important especially in this day of increasing surveillance and abusive governments.
The idea of having a spokesperson for an un-group is preposterous.
This is great news for the Amish legal community. I expect lots of calls to Amish attorneys to try these kinds of cases by the standards of the average Amishman or Mennonite.
I wonder if your 4 year old friend will grow to be the next Stephen Hawking or Jacqueline du Pre or Hero Joy Nightingale or Adam Trayfoot or Kodi Lee. What a shame for them and for the world if none of them ever existed because they failed a genetic test.
Why don't you ask your 4 year old friend if he is glad he is alive, or if he would rather be dead. I think, unfortunately for you, you may find his answer surprising.
It won't be long before we see web pages offering full-body scans of naked people. TMZ will have naked scans of celebrities. And the officials will still swear our privacy is safe in their hands.
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And pedophiles. Don't forget there are pedophiles on Mars.
As a matter of fact there are pot-smoking terrorist pedophiles on Mars. That ought to hit every automatic fear-mongering budget getting buzzword.
> Child sex crime is horrible.
> No argument there. I have children. The mere idea indeed, horrifies me.
> But...
Why do you have to preface your opinion with this disclaimer? Are you so afraid that any position that doesn't sound like you are "tough on pedophiles" will get you branded as a pedophile yourself?
This is exactly the attitude that permits politicians and law enforcement to get away with bullying people into handing over their rights. If you don't agree with this law you must be one of the pedophiles yourself!
I can't wait to try out ArabRoulette and see what I get!
> And what about 3D?
I'm pretty sure we're already wired for 3D. At least I am.
> ... in military application? Robo-cops, emergency responders, and others of similar categories of future application will most definitely benefit from advanced imaging.
HUD capabilities as well -- non-disruptive arrows near the peripheral regions of your vision guiding you to the nearest McDonalds when you ask for it. It won't stop there, "Aps" for your new vision capabilities will spring up -- virtual retinal compass, retinal level (yes, you only need two hands to make sure that picture frame is straight), and the list goes on. Oh, and don't forget the ever loving popular - pop-ups.
Oh great. Then /b/ will be able to hack into my visual cortex and superimpose goatse on everything I am seeing.
I'd be happy to get a free computer. The first thing I'd do is nuke it from orbit (DBAN) and install Ubuntu.
You first, my dear Gaston.
From Wikipedia:
"Power outage
The ice storm left more than 700,000 people without power in and near the Appalachians, including 630,000 customers in Georgia, 358,000 in South Carolina, 328,000 in North Carolina and 13,000 in Virginia. It took over a week to restore power. Several emergency shelters also were opened.[5][6] Electricity was not restored in many places until 20 December 2005, by which time one death was blamed on the outage.[7]"
Yeah, sounds like mass murder rampaging across the nation. Not.
> You are going to need security from the MS13 punk who lives down the street from you when the power grid has been down 1-2 days.
On August 14, 2003 the power grid was down for 1-2 days. I didn't see any punks looting or attacking. But my neighborhood did come out of their houses for once and everyone got to meet each other. The kids got to know each other and had a great time playing instead of hiding inside from the big bad world. We made lasting friends and the neighborhood has been better for it in the years since that.
Stop fear mongering.
> When I was your age, we didn't even have parenetheses! And we had to talk in all caps!
Luckily, by the time I was your age we had open parenthesis. We still didn't have close parenthesis so that was tricky...
> . this document is heart wrenching
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Kids your days... /var/spool/mail/$USER
When I was at school, everyone used vi
I love the idea.
I am ready to sign up when some of my favorite content creators are using it. Until then, however, there is no reason for me to join. I know... chicken and egg...
The Flattr web site needs a list of content creators using the service!
XKCD?
Cory Doctorow?
Jonathan Coulton?
What do you call it when you have 1,000,000 birds going in 10,000 directions, all joining, leaving, peeling off in other directions, and never actually meeting each other or knowing each others identity along the way? Never actually knowing how many other birds, if any, are traveling in the same direction as they are at any moment?
Sounds like a group you may or may not already be a member of. How would you know?
Off the top of my head, without checking my syntax, do this:
find / -exec md5sum -b {} \; > filelist-win.txt
find / -exec md5sum -b {} \; > filelist-lin.txt
(find scans all the files from / down, running md5sum on each one)
Run each under Windows and Linux, respectively. On Windows you will need 'find' and 'md5sum' for Windows, or Cygwin for a full Linux subsystem.
diff filelist-win.txt filelist-lin.txt
No, he's suggesting a program that runs first under Windows to make a list of every file on the disk along with a checksum, then runs under Linux to make a list of every file on the disk along with a checksum. If the lists differ there is likely a root-kit hiding itself when running Windows.
The meme called "Anonymous" (it's isn't a "group") can't have a spokesperson because there is no official "group", no "membership", no shared beliefs, no secret-handshake.
Someone gets an idea to do something, and posts the idea on several popular websites. Anyone who agrees the idea is a good one and takes the suggested action is, for that moment, part of "Anonymous". An hour later someone posts a different idea, some different people agree with that one and take some action and for that moment THEY are "Anonymous".
Some people who may or may not have ever joined in on suggested ideas under the banner of "Anonymous" understand that there is strength in the concept of NOT having any set membership or agenda that can be attacked, responded to, or replied to. Although I, myself, have never participated in any actions proposed by anyone under the banner Anonymous, I can see that this can be important especially in this day of increasing surveillance and abusive governments.
The idea of having a spokesperson for an un-group is preposterous.
This is great news for the Amish legal community. I expect lots of calls to Amish attorneys to try these kinds of cases by the standards of the average Amishman or Mennonite.
Of course, they'll have to get a computer first.
"This just shows that all too few companies are sponsoring a11y work"
I h2e f5g s4d a6s!
And now I understand why he spends all of his waking hours programming.
I wonder if your 4 year old friend will grow to be the next Stephen Hawking or Jacqueline du Pre or Hero Joy Nightingale or Adam Trayfoot or Kodi Lee.
What a shame for them and for the world if none of them ever existed because they failed a genetic test.
Why don't you ask your 4 year old friend if he is glad he is alive, or if he would rather be dead.
I think, unfortunately for you, you may find his answer surprising.
Yeah that's an oldie alright.
Asshat.
The public would be enraged for about 15 minutes until Tila Tequila did something stupid and.... oh shiny...
It won't be long before we see web pages offering full-body scans of naked people. TMZ will have naked scans of celebrities. And the officials will still swear our privacy is safe in their hands.