No, there are a lot of decent people here, but every community attracts its share of assholes and losers.
It doesn't matter what the topic is or what the site is about, sooner or later the jerkoffs arrive and begin pissing in the corners, posting crap (APK, anyone?) and generally just shitting things up for no other reason than that's who they are.
It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.
Bingo, and well said.
These little wankers haven't done anything except show that it's easier to break stuff than to make stuff.
It's like throwing a rock through a window and then bragging about it, as if it had taken the slightest bit of skill or intelligence or insight, or anything.
Honestly, if someone hunted these pukebags down and beat the living shit out of them, I'd have a hard time feeling but joy about it. I know it would be wrong, but I'd be hard pressed to condemn it.
The commercial, it said they would protect me and help me? They are expert, the radio ad said they could stop the bad guys!
What they meant is that it would stop the bad guys from having to go after your info bit by bit- Lifelock helpfully aggregated it all in one place so it could be stolen all at once.
While accommodations for those not familiar with the United States is something I certainly agree with, Tacoma is definitely one of the better known cities among the crowd here,
Bullshit. I live 30 miles north of Tacoma and I couldn't tell if it was in WA state or not. Even the article itself doesn't have the name "Washington" in it.
There are at least 5 or 6 cities named Tacoma in the US, it wouldn't have been that hard to insert the letters "WA" after the first reference. But perhaps I expect too much from the slashdot editors.
So what renders your anecdote of such value and my current experience "not in the real world"? Is software the "real world" and the mining industry not the "real world"? What is it with people bringing up the "mom's basement" shit anyway? So many people have far more demanding jobs than you or I and would consider office jobs the equivalent of your "mom's basement" crack anyway.
And none of that has jack shit to do with the fact that people print stuff, lots of stuff, every single day of the week. Just because you don't do much (or any) printing doesn't mean that no one prints anything. You're viewing the world through the gun-slit experience of your personal experience, and (surprise!) many people have different experiences than you do.
I work on the Microsoft campus (a "small business" that you may have heard of) and they print mountains of stuff every day. Every. Single. Day. And so do many other companies and businesses.
It's as though you look in your refrigerator and don't see any elephants. And so you conclude, "Obviously, there are no elephants anywhere!"
Children don't get an education at public schools. They get bullied and treated like prisoners at public school. They have their natural love of learning destroyed, and their self-confidence undermined at public schools. When they get an education, it's in spite of public school, not because of it.
You have no idea how many people would LOVE to get a free education like the US offers in grades K through 12. Trust me, you have no idea at all.
How dare they try to provide a service that people want!
Next they'll have some kind of crazy thing called a "postal service" where people can send letters and packages to other people fairly inexpensively, and the government will operate it! After that they'll force everyone to use something called "public libraries" and "fire departments". Where will it end??
The end game will be complete when they institute the final piece of Satan's plan called "public schools", where every child will be able to be get an education. O The Horror!
Soon the Evil State will force people at gunpoint to use these municipal broadband services, and if you don't, it's off to the FEMA re-education camps with you, citizen! I swear it's true, Glenn Beck told me so!
Yep, poor noise rejection was definitely one of X-10's major flaws, but it could be fixed, albeit with a bit of sleuthing and patience.
I had a friend whose system was plagued by noise from the neighbor's electrical gear; we finally solved it by using the big choke/noise suppressor gizmo they sold that you would install in the electrical mains coming into your home. It worked like a charm, but it's a little dangerous and scary to install, not something the average tinkerer would want to do.
I had a pretty full-on system, and there were a few devices in my home that generated fake "commands". Using the individual plug-in isolators fixed those appliances.
X-10 systems definitely had their flaws, but in my opinion they beat the shit out of the crap that's on the market today. Less expensive, fairly flexible, and virtually zero compatibility issues. Most of it survived lighting strikes and lots of abuse.
I can't actually think of anything that didn't work once it was plugged in. I had the Homebase system with a 16-input interface, PC-linked controller, programmable I/O and output relays, and a ton of other auxiliary gear hooked up through various other means. Telephone responders, driveway sensors, super-sensitive dial-in microphones with a telephone interface, etc etc etc. And this was 20 years ago...
I doubt half the stuff I had is available from any other brand of home automation gear. It all worked just like it should, and it didn't cost $100 per outlet or $60 for a single fucking light bulb like the HUE crap does (!!).
All the various home automation companies have done is make the new stuff more expensive, less hackable, less durable, and less compatible with anything else.
Yeah, they were fun movies, they were entertaining movies, but the level of fandom has always puzzled me.
I mean, camping out for 10 ten days in front of the theater just to be able to see the new movie? Really?
I appreciate fandom and I think a lot of it is cool and quirky and fun, but the level of fandom that Star Wars has inspired is just, I dunno, baffling to me. And I like the movies, I think they're a ton of fun. But having a Star Wars-themed wedding seems a bit much to me.
If that's your thing, though, go for it, and more power to you.
Oh well, another one of life's mysteries for me to ponder.:)
That reminds me of the guy in California named "Al Nino" who used to get hateful calls every time the weather forecasters started talking about how "El Nino" might ruin crops this year or whatever. Seriously, people would call him and curse him out for "fucking up the weather".
And also, there was that poor bastard named "Al Cayda", who's received a similar boatload of shit for the last decade or so.
I print something about once a month. WTF are you people doing that you need to use so much god damn paper all the time? It is long past time you monkeys learned to operate without printing every damn thing.
I'm not surprised there's no printer in your mom's basement.
You obviously have never been anywhere near an attorney's office, real estate office, shipping center, or any other place where people have to interact with the real world, for that matter. People print stuff all the damn time in the real world.
That's what "interoperability" means to these fuckers: It'll interoperate with our stuff, not anyone else's.
Besides, only terrorists want interoperability, citizen! You only want interoperability if you have something to hide, everyone knows that! Just like with using encryption!
Now think of the children (and our corporate profits) and move along, consumer!
Slashdot Mirror
You guys basically just described Slashdot.
No, there are a lot of decent people here, but every community attracts its share of assholes and losers.
It doesn't matter what the topic is or what the site is about, sooner or later the jerkoffs arrive and begin pissing in the corners, posting crap (APK, anyone?) and generally just shitting things up for no other reason than that's who they are.
It is adolescent. There is so much to discover in the world from molecular biology to astrophysics and all these folks can muster as their contribution to humanity is to hold their dicks in their hands and giggle as they frustrate people for a few hours who are trying to play computer games. Pathetic.
Bingo, and well said.
These little wankers haven't done anything except show that it's easier to break stuff than to make stuff.
It's like throwing a rock through a window and then bragging about it, as if it had taken the slightest bit of skill or intelligence or insight, or anything.
Honestly, if someone hunted these pukebags down and beat the living shit out of them, I'd have a hard time feeling but joy about it. I know it would be wrong, but I'd be hard pressed to condemn it.
The commercial, it said they would protect me and help me? They are expert, the radio ad said they could stop the bad guys!
What they meant is that it would stop the bad guys from having to go after your info bit by bit- Lifelock helpfully aggregated it all in one place so it could be stolen all at once.
Ha ha ha ha ha...errrr, I mean, "Gosh, that's terrible!"
Serves them right for making claims that they couldn't possibly hope to fulfill.
"We'll keep your identity safe!" ranks right up there with "Lose 50lbs overnight guaranteed!"
And then on top of that, they practice shitty in-house security, making it all the more likely that your data will be stolen and misused? Brilliant.
While accommodations for those not familiar with the United States is something I certainly agree with, Tacoma is definitely one of the better known cities among the crowd here,
Bullshit. I live 30 miles north of Tacoma and I couldn't tell if it was in WA state or not. Even the article itself doesn't have the name "Washington" in it.
There are at least 5 or 6 cities named Tacoma in the US, it wouldn't have been that hard to insert the letters "WA" after the first reference. But perhaps I expect too much from the slashdot editors.
Is it a secret? Or is it just too fucking hard to add what state this particular city of Tacoma is in?
This whole article can be boiled down to "We want a piece of the action".
.....something something webscale.
If you're gonna leak data, go big or go home!
So what renders your anecdote of such value and my current experience "not in the real world"? Is software the "real world" and the mining industry not the "real world"? What is it with people bringing up the "mom's basement" shit anyway? So many people have far more demanding jobs than you or I and would consider office jobs the equivalent of your "mom's basement" crack anyway.
And none of that has jack shit to do with the fact that people print stuff, lots of stuff, every single day of the week. Just because you don't do much (or any) printing doesn't mean that no one prints anything. You're viewing the world through the gun-slit experience of your personal experience, and (surprise!) many people have different experiences than you do.
I work on the Microsoft campus (a "small business" that you may have heard of) and they print mountains of stuff every day. Every. Single. Day. And so do many other companies and businesses.
It's as though you look in your refrigerator and don't see any elephants. And so you conclude, "Obviously, there are no elephants anywhere!"
So only small businesses in suburbia do actual work?
Fair enough, but other places are printing less than a couple of years ago.
I work on the Redmond campus and trust me, plenty of people here print plenty of stuff every single day.
Children don't get an education at public schools. They get bullied and treated like prisoners at public school. They have their natural love of learning destroyed, and their self-confidence undermined at public schools. When they get an education, it's in spite of public school, not because of it.
You have no idea how many people would LOVE to get a free education like the US offers in grades K through 12. Trust me, you have no idea at all.
The stupidity in this sort of proposal is mind-bending on so many levels.
Jaysus! It's depressing when people don't even recognize the Third Reich references anymore....
I know...I laughed, and then I cried. You could probably reprint Hitler's speeches, change a few key words, and the masses would gobble it up.
We need to be stopping the relentless growth of big government, not find more things for them to get their paws into.
Rand Paul, is that you?
How dare they try to provide a service that people want!
Next they'll have some kind of crazy thing called a "postal service" where people can send letters and packages to other people fairly inexpensively, and the government will operate it! After that they'll force everyone to use something called "public libraries" and "fire departments". Where will it end??
The end game will be complete when they institute the final piece of Satan's plan called "public schools", where every child will be able to be get an education. O The Horror!
Soon the Evil State will force people at gunpoint to use these municipal broadband services, and if you don't, it's off to the FEMA re-education camps with you, citizen! I swear it's true, Glenn Beck told me so!
Yep, poor noise rejection was definitely one of X-10's major flaws, but it could be fixed, albeit with a bit of sleuthing and patience.
I had a friend whose system was plagued by noise from the neighbor's electrical gear; we finally solved it by using the big choke/noise suppressor gizmo they sold that you would install in the electrical mains coming into your home. It worked like a charm, but it's a little dangerous and scary to install, not something the average tinkerer would want to do.
I had a pretty full-on system, and there were a few devices in my home that generated fake "commands". Using the individual plug-in isolators fixed those appliances.
X-10 systems definitely had their flaws, but in my opinion they beat the shit out of the crap that's on the market today. Less expensive, fairly flexible, and virtually zero compatibility issues. Most of it survived lighting strikes and lots of abuse.
I can't actually think of anything that didn't work once it was plugged in. I had the Homebase system with a 16-input interface, PC-linked controller, programmable I/O and output relays, and a ton of other auxiliary gear hooked up through various other means. Telephone responders, driveway sensors, super-sensitive dial-in microphones with a telephone interface, etc etc etc. And this was 20 years ago...
I doubt half the stuff I had is available from any other brand of home automation gear. It all worked just like it should, and it didn't cost $100 per outlet or $60 for a single fucking light bulb like the HUE crap does (!!).
All the various home automation companies have done is make the new stuff more expensive, less hackable, less durable, and less compatible with anything else.
The hoopla over Star Wars has always baffled me.
Yeah, they were fun movies, they were entertaining movies, but the level of fandom has always puzzled me.
I mean, camping out for 10 ten days in front of the theater just to be able to see the new movie? Really?
I appreciate fandom and I think a lot of it is cool and quirky and fun, but the level of fandom that Star Wars has inspired is just, I dunno, baffling to me. And I like the movies, I think they're a ton of fun. But having a Star Wars-themed wedding seems a bit much to me.
If that's your thing, though, go for it, and more power to you.
Oh well, another one of life's mysteries for me to ponder. :)
Looks like there's another product/service I won't be purchasing.
Was he related to Mike Hunt?
I think he was a cousin of Ben Dover.
A lot of people are happier with PDFs.
Except for every office on the planet that does actual work, e.g. attorneys, doctors, real estate agents, shipping centers, print shops, etc etc etc.
That reminds me of the guy in California named "Al Nino" who used to get hateful calls every time the weather forecasters started talking about how "El Nino" might ruin crops this year or whatever. Seriously, people would call him and curse him out for "fucking up the weather".
And also, there was that poor bastard named "Al Cayda", who's received a similar boatload of shit for the last decade or so.
This Z-wave crap and all the other Phillips junk make the old X-10 stuff look like the pinnacle of engineering.
I had dozens of X-10 gadgets made by dozens of different companies, and guess what? They all fucking worked together perfectly.
X-10 was a serviceable (if somewhat hokey) system, but I had my house fully automated 20 fucking years ago and all that shit just worked.
Really, it all worked together perfectly and it didn't cost an arm and a leg for a power outlet or light switch.
I still use some of it today, 20 years later, and it all still just works.
I print something about once a month. WTF are you people doing that you need to use so much god damn paper all the time? It is long past time you monkeys learned to operate without printing every damn thing.
I'm not surprised there's no printer in your mom's basement.
You obviously have never been anywhere near an attorney's office, real estate office, shipping center, or any other place where people have to interact with the real world, for that matter. People print stuff all the damn time in the real world.
Guess who won't be buying them? That's right, me.
Thanks Phillips, for screwing it all up so blatantly before I spent a dime on your jackass proprietary crap.
Seriously....this should surprise no one.
That's what "interoperability" means to these fuckers: It'll interoperate with our stuff, not anyone else's.
Besides, only terrorists want interoperability, citizen! You only want interoperability if you have something to hide, everyone knows that! Just like with using encryption!
Now think of the children (and our corporate profits) and move along, consumer!