You could do more monetary damage by totaling someone’s parked Tesla with a lifted pickup truck, and you’re likely not going to face jail time for that.
He should have to pay for the replacement costs of computers he damaged and any labor costs associated with replacing them/restoring the backups/reconfiguring them. That alone is enough of a deterrent to keep copycats from getting any ideas - there’s no need to “send a message.”
Oh my how did we ever survive before the 1990's when we started having the Internet? It was all stone knives and bearskins living in caves then BOOM, Internet!
RadioShack had this awesome catalog full of special order parts. Blockbuster had aisles of movies. Circuit City had all the cool new gadgets. The local mall wasn't a fucking ghost town.
Because/. has a large population of super-right-wing trolls that like to steer the conversation in a way that favors Republicans or Russia. You can usually tell based on their name: Anonymous Coward
Judging by my posts that have been modded straight to hell, a lot of the right-wing trolls have logged-in accounts too. ACs don't get mod points.
These people need to ask themselves how weak their position must truly be, if they can't support it with a rebuttal and instead resort to just modding down because they disagree with an opposing political viewpoint. It's like Idiocracy fucking came true.
Well, I can say with some certainty that you can't really call yourself the party of science when there's nothing but knee-jerk reactions from the left when it comes to nuclear energy or GMO foods, and there are a whole lot of the anti-vaccination crowd that self-identify with the left.
You seem to be confusing the left's supporters in the voting public with the politicians who actually make policy. About the only thing you got right is yes, the left generally opposes nuclear power. Not so much because they fear something they don't understand, but because when things go wrong with nuclear, they can go very wrong, and fuck up the environment pretty badly in the process.
Obamacare is an attempt to use the power of free markets and capitalism to solve a social problem.
The ACA was a boondoggled attempt at solving the dilemma of how to expand access to healthcare while simultaneously protecting the profits of the health insurance industry. It doesn't exactly stand as a shining beacon to our government's ability to solve problems.
My Skype account is still screwed up from the time hackers exploited some security flaw and took it over. Since I didn't have any payment/banking information or any really useful personal info linked to Skype, the damage was minimal. I reset my password ages ago, but it's still in some sort of a restricted status that customer service is unable/unwilling to fix.
It's just annoying that if I ever have a need to use Skype again, I'll need to make yet another damn Microsoft account.
I was going to post exactly the same thing. Back when Google bought GrandCentral, my "number for life" was one of the ones that got fucked up in the transition.
Predictably, I never did manage to get a satisfactory answer out of Google as to why my number died, nor were they able to do anything to fix it. I ended up just having to make a new account. That's the thing with free services - when they don't work properly, you get exactly what you paid for.
Have you seen Justin Bieber lately? Recently he has joined a cult like church, dropped out of music and diving deep into trying to fix his screwed up life. And he blames it solely on basically permanently being on tour since 14.
On the other hand, Cher hooked up with a 28-year-old when she was 16 and seems to be no worse for it. Some kids handle fame fine, some don't.
Statistically, I have to wonder if it's really any different than how non-famous people manage to screw up their lives. From my childhood, one of my friends joined the army and totally fucked up his back. Another got divorced and is pretty much put off dating over it. Real life doesn't have a whole lot of "happily ever afters", so if this kid is making money and having fun, more power to him.
That's not the effect of weed. That's the effect of socialism.
The AC's point was the original puritan argument against hedonism, and it's not entirely without merit. In an ideal world, you'd educate people about the risks of using drugs and most people would see value in the logic that mind-altering substances are detrimental to their health and are an unproductive use of their money and free time. Unfortunately, in practice, that works about as well as arguing politics on the internet.
If you believe people have a right to sit on their ass and get high rather than being productive members of society, you've gotta be willing to accept the consequences wrought upon your society by allowing such behavior. That usually means the productive members have to support the druggies.
So, if you're not a big fan of socialism - you probably shouldn't be a big fan of hedonism.
And of course, I got modded down. See, right-wingers agree with censorship in principal, but only when it's applied to opposing viewpoints. Oh, the irony.
It's THEIR platform... THEIR company...and they can tell you to fuck off if the want.
Right-wing logic: If you want them to bake your gay wedding cake, the business can tell you to pound sand. If you want them to host your alt-right bullshit, the business must comply.
I realize religion factored in a bit to the gay wedding cake thing. Perhaps social media companies should start saying it's against their religion to allow posting of alt-right bullshit.
You would think so, but you haven't been deplatformed yet and then found that other platforms that were open to you are being harassed out of business by the same thought police.
Just checked, Breitbart is still right where I remember it being (in the cesspool section of the internet, right next to 4chan).
You might have a valid point if this was child porn or illicit drug merchants, but there is no shortage of alt-right propaganda on the internet, and nothing stopping anyone from adding more. The alt-right is just pissed they can't spew their shit on someone else's dime. You'd think that would be too socialist of a concept for them.
I don't see why Shane Gaskill should be held responsible for somebody else's reckless actions.
I thought the same thing after the story originally broke, and apparently it comes down to Mr. Gaskill not being a good little comrade and contacting the authorities the second he found out shit got real. Okay, that part I can kind of understand. Going to the cops doesn't always have the outcome you're hoping for.
But then it gets weird: Mr. Gaskill actually contacted the guy who "hired" the swatter and told him to destroy any evidence of what had transpired. That's a really strange thing to do for someone whose prank could've very likely gotten you killed if the SWAT team hadn't gone to someone else's house.
It appears the whole lot of 'em are a bunch of deranged fucks, and they all probably deserve varying degrees of time locked away from society.
Hey Samsung, you can have this one for free: Instead of expensively hiding a shite camera behind the screen, add a small second screen on the rear of the device
The Motorola RAZR (the old flip phone, not the Android phone of the same name) had this. You'd close the flip and the small external screen became a selfie monitor.
No one really used that feature at the time, because sharing selfies on social media wasn't a thing yet.
If you try to sell a gift card to Cardpool for Amazon credit when they're all out of Amazon gift cards, they will delay processing your order for an eternity (most likely, due to waiting for people to sell them some unwanted Amazon gift cards).
Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are
Is it even remotely feasible to send normal-ass moon rocks back to earth for less than $1300/ounce including overhead, let alone gold which would have to be mined/purified/whatever first?
No. But that doesn't matter because investors are fucking stupid. This is what happens when all the wealth is concentrated at the top - the only way for the already-rich to get richer is to scam money out of other rich people. The rest of us just get to sit here thinking "Man, I wish I had the money to scam other rich people with some bullshit scheme."
1. Run ads/press releases about your great new moon venture biz. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Roundup-Ready crops allow herbicides to be applied more effectively after germination, rather than using much harsher herbicides to kill weeds in the seed stage.
Considering that glyphosate can show up in foods, this isn't exactly extolling a benefit of Roundup-Ready GMOs.
This is exactly the same concept which gave the anti-vaxxers movement traction. Instead of immediately acknowledging that some people might not like mercury compounds in their vaccines, the medical community responded with "But this mercury isn't harmful at all!". We all know how that turned out.
GMOs have some positive benefits for both humanity and the environment but enabling the agri-biz to sell more glyphosate isn't one of them.
How does this movie bring "anger and division" to our pop culture, exactly?
Same shit with ST:D (what an unfortunate abbreviation, though). Judging by Slashdot's response, you'd think it put ransomware on peoples' computers and raped their cats.
I finally got around to binge-watching to the most recent episode and it's actually pretty good. I'll probably ruffle some feathers here, but IMHO ST:D got off to a better start than ST:V, and that didn't really hit its stride until it got Borg-y. My biggest gripe against ST:D is CBS All Access.
As to Captain Marvel, I don't really feel one way or the other about it. It's just MCU filler until Avengers: End Game comes out. I'll probably watch it when it hits WEB-DL, if you catch my drift.
Without independent access to the blockchain however, you can't verify your transaction. You'd have to trust the other party is being honest.
Cryptocurrency simply cannot be transacted offline. At best, you can give someone a wallet, and (as you said) the other party is required to trust that you've accurately represented the value it holds and that you aren't immediately going to drain it into another wallet after conducting your real-world transaction.
Unless you have access to the blockchain network, you have no way of verifying the amount contained in a wallet, and you can't securely transfer coin(s) to someone else's wallet.
They want to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round, not abolish it.
Florida was working on something similar (I can't be bothered to look it up), and what it boils down to is once they stop the biannual clock fuckery, businesses and what-not will be free to operate on the schedules they see fit.
So in other words, if you don't want to get up at the ass crack of dawn, you can just open your business at 10am and stay open 'till 6pm, without Uncle Sam meddling with your clocks.
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You could do more monetary damage by totaling someone’s parked Tesla with a lifted pickup truck, and you’re likely not going to face jail time for that.
He should have to pay for the replacement costs of computers he damaged and any labor costs associated with replacing them/restoring the backups/reconfiguring them. That alone is enough of a deterrent to keep copycats from getting any ideas - there’s no need to “send a message.”
Oh my how did we ever survive before the 1990's when we started having the Internet? It was all stone knives and bearskins living in caves then BOOM, Internet!
RadioShack had this awesome catalog full of special order parts. Blockbuster had aisles of movies. Circuit City had all the cool new gadgets. The local mall wasn't a fucking ghost town.
Because /. has a large population of super-right-wing trolls that like to steer the conversation in a way that favors Republicans or Russia. You can usually tell based on their name: Anonymous Coward
Judging by my posts that have been modded straight to hell, a lot of the right-wing trolls have logged-in accounts too. ACs don't get mod points.
These people need to ask themselves how weak their position must truly be, if they can't support it with a rebuttal and instead resort to just modding down because they disagree with an opposing political viewpoint. It's like Idiocracy fucking came true.
Well, I can say with some certainty that you can't really call yourself the party of science when there's nothing but knee-jerk reactions from the left when it comes to nuclear energy or GMO foods, and there are a whole lot of the anti-vaccination crowd that self-identify with the left.
You seem to be confusing the left's supporters in the voting public with the politicians who actually make policy. About the only thing you got right is yes, the left generally opposes nuclear power. Not so much because they fear something they don't understand, but because when things go wrong with nuclear, they can go very wrong, and fuck up the environment pretty badly in the process.
Obamacare is an attempt to use the power of free markets and capitalism to solve a social problem.
The ACA was a boondoggled attempt at solving the dilemma of how to expand access to healthcare while simultaneously protecting the profits of the health insurance industry. It doesn't exactly stand as a shining beacon to our government's ability to solve problems.
My Skype account is still screwed up from the time hackers exploited some security flaw and took it over. Since I didn't have any payment/banking information or any really useful personal info linked to Skype, the damage was minimal. I reset my password ages ago, but it's still in some sort of a restricted status that customer service is unable/unwilling to fix.
It's just annoying that if I ever have a need to use Skype again, I'll need to make yet another damn Microsoft account.
I was going to post exactly the same thing. Back when Google bought GrandCentral, my "number for life" was one of the ones that got fucked up in the transition.
Predictably, I never did manage to get a satisfactory answer out of Google as to why my number died, nor were they able to do anything to fix it. I ended up just having to make a new account. That's the thing with free services - when they don't work properly, you get exactly what you paid for.
Have you seen Justin Bieber lately? Recently he has joined a cult like church, dropped out of music and diving deep into trying to fix his screwed up life. And he blames it solely on basically permanently being on tour since 14.
On the other hand, Cher hooked up with a 28-year-old when she was 16 and seems to be no worse for it. Some kids handle fame fine, some don't.
Statistically, I have to wonder if it's really any different than how non-famous people manage to screw up their lives. From my childhood, one of my friends joined the army and totally fucked up his back. Another got divorced and is pretty much put off dating over it. Real life doesn't have a whole lot of "happily ever afters", so if this kid is making money and having fun, more power to him.
That's not the effect of weed. That's the effect of socialism.
The AC's point was the original puritan argument against hedonism, and it's not entirely without merit. In an ideal world, you'd educate people about the risks of using drugs and most people would see value in the logic that mind-altering substances are detrimental to their health and are an unproductive use of their money and free time. Unfortunately, in practice, that works about as well as arguing politics on the internet.
If you believe people have a right to sit on their ass and get high rather than being productive members of society, you've gotta be willing to accept the consequences wrought upon your society by allowing such behavior. That usually means the productive members have to support the druggies.
So, if you're not a big fan of socialism - you probably shouldn't be a big fan of hedonism.
And of course, I got modded down. See, right-wingers agree with censorship in principal, but only when it's applied to opposing viewpoints. Oh, the irony.
You represent the new theocracy well. All blasphemers must be eliminated.
Would you really have cast your vote for a left-leaning candidate if us left-wingers refrained from offending your Trumpflake sensitivities? No?
If you think about it long enough, you might eventually grasp the concept.
It's THEIR platform... THEIR company...and they can tell you to fuck off if the want.
Right-wing logic:
If you want them to bake your gay wedding cake, the business can tell you to pound sand.
If you want them to host your alt-right bullshit, the business must comply.
I realize religion factored in a bit to the gay wedding cake thing. Perhaps social media companies should start saying it's against their religion to allow posting of alt-right bullshit.
You would think so, but you haven't been deplatformed yet and then found that other platforms that were open to you are being harassed out of business by the same thought police.
Just checked, Breitbart is still right where I remember it being (in the cesspool section of the internet, right next to 4chan).
You might have a valid point if this was child porn or illicit drug merchants, but there is no shortage of alt-right propaganda on the internet, and nothing stopping anyone from adding more. The alt-right is just pissed they can't spew their shit on someone else's dime. You'd think that would be too socialist of a concept for them.
Twitter has officially jumped the shark. It's all downhill from here...
Yep, the cat's out of the bag. On April 1st, it will be ALL DUPES, ALL DAY!
I don't see why Shane Gaskill should be held responsible for somebody else's reckless actions.
I thought the same thing after the story originally broke, and apparently it comes down to Mr. Gaskill not being a good little comrade and contacting the authorities the second he found out shit got real. Okay, that part I can kind of understand. Going to the cops doesn't always have the outcome you're hoping for.
But then it gets weird: Mr. Gaskill actually contacted the guy who "hired" the swatter and told him to destroy any evidence of what had transpired. That's a really strange thing to do for someone whose prank could've very likely gotten you killed if the SWAT team hadn't gone to someone else's house.
It appears the whole lot of 'em are a bunch of deranged fucks, and they all probably deserve varying degrees of time locked away from society.
Hey Samsung, you can have this one for free: Instead of expensively hiding a shite camera behind the screen, add a small second screen on the rear of the device
The Motorola RAZR (the old flip phone, not the Android phone of the same name) had this. You'd close the flip and the small external screen became a selfie monitor.
No one really used that feature at the time, because sharing selfies on social media wasn't a thing yet.
If you try to sell a gift card to Cardpool for Amazon credit when they're all out of Amazon gift cards, they will delay processing your order for an eternity (most likely, due to waiting for people to sell them some unwanted Amazon gift cards).
The internet is full of shady dealings.
Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are
Fixed that for you.
That's most certainly not how it was marketed.
Figures that the crowd that hasn't figured out how to block ads would be the ones doing all the whining.
Is it even remotely feasible to send normal-ass moon rocks back to earth for less than $1300/ounce including overhead, let alone gold which would have to be mined/purified/whatever first?
No. But that doesn't matter because investors are fucking stupid. This is what happens when all the wealth is concentrated at the top - the only way for the already-rich to get richer is to scam money out of other rich people. The rest of us just get to sit here thinking "Man, I wish I had the money to scam other rich people with some bullshit scheme."
1. Run ads/press releases about your great new moon venture biz.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Roundup-Ready crops allow herbicides to be applied more effectively after germination, rather than using much harsher herbicides to kill weeds in the seed stage.
Considering that glyphosate can show up in foods, this isn't exactly extolling a benefit of Roundup-Ready GMOs.
This is exactly the same concept which gave the anti-vaxxers movement traction. Instead of immediately acknowledging that some people might not like mercury compounds in their vaccines, the medical community responded with "But this mercury isn't harmful at all!". We all know how that turned out.
GMOs have some positive benefits for both humanity and the environment but enabling the agri-biz to sell more glyphosate isn't one of them.
How does this movie bring "anger and division" to our pop culture, exactly?
Same shit with ST:D (what an unfortunate abbreviation, though). Judging by Slashdot's response, you'd think it put ransomware on peoples' computers and raped their cats.
I finally got around to binge-watching to the most recent episode and it's actually pretty good. I'll probably ruffle some feathers here, but IMHO ST:D got off to a better start than ST:V, and that didn't really hit its stride until it got Borg-y. My biggest gripe against ST:D is CBS All Access.
As to Captain Marvel, I don't really feel one way or the other about it. It's just MCU filler until Avengers: End Game comes out. I'll probably watch it when it hits WEB-DL, if you catch my drift.
Without independent access to the blockchain however, you can't verify your transaction. You'd have to trust the other party is being honest.
Cryptocurrency simply cannot be transacted offline. At best, you can give someone a wallet, and (as you said) the other party is required to trust that you've accurately represented the value it holds and that you aren't immediately going to drain it into another wallet after conducting your real-world transaction.
Unless you have access to the blockchain network, you have no way of verifying the amount contained in a wallet, and you can't securely transfer coin(s) to someone else's wallet.
They want to keep Daylight Saving Time year-round, not abolish it.
Florida was working on something similar (I can't be bothered to look it up), and what it boils down to is once they stop the biannual clock fuckery, businesses and what-not will be free to operate on the schedules they see fit.
So in other words, if you don't want to get up at the ass crack of dawn, you can just open your business at 10am and stay open 'till 6pm, without Uncle Sam meddling with your clocks.