Well, duh. It's an arms race. The computer companies learn from their mistakes and do it better next time. The really good ones think like a pirate and use misleading techniques to secure their property. Eventually they'll have pretty good security that resists most attempts at tampering. Then pirates will move on to other, more rewarding areas of study.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Where do you get your news about China, the New York Times? China doesn't "like" bribes more than anywhere else. You can get things done by the rule of law.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
Hmm...this seems an odd bill. Why would anyone need legal protection for their beliefs? Is there retaliation going on somewhere in academia against those who dissent? I doubt it - surely it would be front-page news in the mainstream media. Freedom to practice religion in our own way was one of the ideas America was founded on. Academia needs diversity of thought more than anywhere else in society. That's one of the reasons that inclusion is so deeply valued. To think that such principled, ethical professors would discriminate on basis of religion is beyond any sort of belief.
I also like the headline: "bill outlaws X" and the summary merely says "bill has been introduced to do X". Typical journalism, eh?
Well, let's not split hairs. The entire Fukushima crisis has been a great boon to liberals and greens (and stinky hippies). In Germany nuclear power plants are shutting down across the board, and in other countries political gains are being made as well. So why are you all pissed? Your side is winning! If the reactor melts down and thousands die, it will be impossible to commission a new nuclear reactor in the West: what a huge victory! This goal has been the ambition of liberals and greens for a long time.
So...how do you give your contact information to strangers? People who may want to contact you? You just give them your twitter handle, spelling it out verbally, and watch over their shoulder as they add it? Isn't that annoying? I guess not. Don't tell me people do business on facebook, where no communications are secure. Wait, don't tell me...
Well, there are twelve tenses, and the only reason to change verb tense is to show WHEN something happened. It's obsessive. Other languages are much more casual. Chinese, for its monumental difficulty, has only two verb tenses (thank GOD).
We're not thinking of "you", Tokyo foreigner. We're thinking of Japanese people. You know, the ones who were actually affected? The one type of news story we've had an abundance of, repeated above, is "well, good news, Tokyo where all the foreigners and other important people live is safe. Some towns called with rustic hick names got washed away and thousands killed but it wasn't us so no big loss...OMG a nuke plant might blow up and threaten Tokyo! Attention journalists, run away!"
At last, the English language's obsession with what time something occurred serves it well. Usually it just serves to confuse the hell out of ESL learners, since the ESL teachers love to test for obscure tenses.
Uhh...Japanese population not being resistant to ideas about nuclear anything? Are you on crack, man? Most Japanese HATE the idea of nuclear...Japan has a lot of nuclear power plants due to the yakuza/construction/government triangle that makes Japan build all sorts of crazy shit everywhere, paving over their whole island. But wait, it's EEEEVUL capitalism's fault - AGAIN. Is there any ill in this world that cannot be connected in some way? It's like how people see the Devil's hand in everything, only a bit different.
Now hold on, I have received it on good authority, right here on Slashdot, that there is no difference between the two parties. This typically happens when there is a story about (D). Now, the story is about (R), which have been concluded to be uniquely evil? It can't be both, man, make up your mind.
I brought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. You know, we become responsible for administrating, you know, 250 million people. And there was no answer. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people? The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States. They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education in the Southwest where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be. I asked, "Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate, that are die-hard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated and when I pursued this further, they estimated that they'd have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of whom have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
-- FBI informant Larry Grathwohl, on a meeting attended by Obama and Ayers
Isn't it funny how everything is America's fault? Cuba imprisons people for free speech: America did it. You know how long Cubans have been keeping their own people down by appealing to their xenophobia with such nonsense?
Guess what, when you commit a very serious crime, you have demonstrated that you can't play well with the rest of us, and we decided that you will lose certain civil rights. Such as: not being able to own a firearm, participation in the political process, and ineligibility for military service. Tough shit. Should have thought of that before hurting society. Payback's a bitch, ain't it?
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out. It utterly and completely destroys any point I might have made. The UN is totally blameless in any sort of child sex scandals, yes sir. This is dripping with sarcasm, in case you can't tell.
Actually, no. The Internet (as a proper noun) is an American innovation to which all sorts of foreigners have been invited to hitch their wagons. The www (worldwide web) was invented by Europeans as a method for spreading advertisements and viruses over the Internet. There is nothing, NOTHING that says a global computer network MUST be implemented according to RFC or ICANN regulations. Heck, why must it implement an ancient, outdated standard that was new in the 80s: TCP/IP?
There are other ways to do it. Many, many other ways that don't involve anyone other than yourselves. Get to work, you "international community". Let us know when you're done, we'll provide a gateway between UnitedNationsControlledTheoreticalUtopiaNet and the Internet.
OH MY GOD, it's American!@#!@#! Lulzzz
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You know, honestly, I have nothing to say about this story, other than ICANN is a bunch of sonofabitches who should enjoy CO2 gas leaks while sleeping in their 5-star hotel rooms. So I'll just comment on the non-story story.
First of all, ICANN as a group is a bunch of people who should have CO2 let into their 5-star hotel rooms while they sleep. I will leave the explanation and justification of this to others who have had first-hand experiences at the hands of ICANN.
Secondly, after reading Wikipedia for so long, the words [citation needed] automatically appear in my head after a phrase like "While some people finding it frightening that a US corporation controls names usage on the Internet". Some people? Who are they, exactly? Can we get a quote from one of them? OMG IT'S AMERIKKKAN CORPRATION DROPPING DEMOCRACY BOMBS OMG RUN FOR THE HILLS MABEL. Come on, this isn't the New York Times here, we need fact-checking by objective observers.
"the prospect of a UN body assuming control raises its own concerns." Damn straight it does. As much as I despise ICANN, it has never, to my knowledge, been accused of child abuse the way the United Nations has been(warning, the previous website may be blocked based on the human rights attitude of your country or your employer).
So did you have a point with this, or is it just to be an asshole? On what day do you celebrate mathematicians? 3.14159 is drilled into scientist heads from day 1. 22/7 is a uniquely rough approximation used by creationists and other types who cannot get through their heads that irrational numbers exist. But the 22/7 thing is NOT American, and 3/14 IS, so that by definition self-justifies, if only because anything anti-American is intrinsically good.
Re:And just as important.
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Happy Pi Day
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This "holiday", which does not exist on any calendar...seems sexist and homophobic. Please to be explaining why it is not heterocentric, sir.
Because it's not a generalization to say, "they're a pack of morons?" Let me guess, you're either a short-timer or an English teacher yourself. It's like saying, "Alabamans are morons." Sure there may be a few diamonds in the rough, but all in all it's a pretty safe statement and if you saw it attached to anything scientific you would never be criticized for skipping it.
We all remember Hurricane Katrina. The mantras of free market solutions and small government have left most western nations with barebones disaster response capabilities.
I see what you did there. Katrina had zero to do with "free markets" and everything to do with corrupt local officials and just plain shitty citizens. I suppose "Schoolbus" Nagin didn't get a lot of press overseas. Look him up. A similar storm, Rita hit Texas a year or two later and the government responded adequately, and Texas is a poster boy of small government. I suppose that didn't make the news in Europe - inconvenient truths and all
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Well, duh. It's an arms race. The computer companies learn from their mistakes and do it better next time. The really good ones think like a pirate and use misleading techniques to secure their property. Eventually they'll have pretty good security that resists most attempts at tampering. Then pirates will move on to other, more rewarding areas of study.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
I know this is a story about mobile phones, but why's that guy have such a comically oversized bluetooth headset? Stupid slashdot icons.
Really? You sure about that? Not just putting words in the opposition's mouth, as happens so often these days?
Hmm...this seems an odd bill. Why would anyone need legal protection for their beliefs? Is there retaliation going on somewhere in academia against those who dissent? I doubt it - surely it would be front-page news in the mainstream media. Freedom to practice religion in our own way was one of the ideas America was founded on. Academia needs diversity of thought more than anywhere else in society. That's one of the reasons that inclusion is so deeply valued. To think that such principled, ethical professors would discriminate on basis of religion is beyond any sort of belief.
I also like the headline: "bill outlaws X" and the summary merely says "bill has been introduced to do X". Typical journalism, eh?
Well, let's not split hairs. The entire Fukushima crisis has been a great boon to liberals and greens (and stinky hippies). In Germany nuclear power plants are shutting down across the board, and in other countries political gains are being made as well. So why are you all pissed? Your side is winning! If the reactor melts down and thousands die, it will be impossible to commission a new nuclear reactor in the West: what a huge victory! This goal has been the ambition of liberals and greens for a long time.
So...how do you give your contact information to strangers? People who may want to contact you? You just give them your twitter handle, spelling it out verbally, and watch over their shoulder as they add it? Isn't that annoying? I guess not. Don't tell me people do business on facebook, where no communications are secure. Wait, don't tell me...
Well, there are twelve tenses, and the only reason to change verb tense is to show WHEN something happened. It's obsessive. Other languages are much more casual. Chinese, for its monumental difficulty, has only two verb tenses (thank GOD).
We're not thinking of "you", Tokyo foreigner. We're thinking of Japanese people. You know, the ones who were actually affected? The one type of news story we've had an abundance of, repeated above, is "well, good news, Tokyo where all the foreigners and other important people live is safe. Some towns called with rustic hick names got washed away and thousands killed but it wasn't us so no big loss...OMG a nuke plant might blow up and threaten Tokyo! Attention journalists, run away!"
At last, the English language's obsession with what time something occurred serves it well. Usually it just serves to confuse the hell out of ESL learners, since the ESL teachers love to test for obscure tenses.
Uhh...Japanese population not being resistant to ideas about nuclear anything? Are you on crack, man? Most Japanese HATE the idea of nuclear...Japan has a lot of nuclear power plants due to the yakuza/construction/government triangle that makes Japan build all sorts of crazy shit everywhere, paving over their whole island. But wait, it's EEEEVUL capitalism's fault - AGAIN. Is there any ill in this world that cannot be connected in some way? It's like how people see the Devil's hand in everything, only a bit different.
Now hold on, I have received it on good authority, right here on Slashdot, that there is no difference between the two parties. This typically happens when there is a story about (D). Now, the story is about (R), which have been concluded to be uniquely evil? It can't be both, man, make up your mind.
I brought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. You know, we become responsible for administrating, you know, 250 million people. And there was no answer. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people? The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States. They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education in the Southwest where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be. I asked, "Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate, that are die-hard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated and when I pursued this further, they estimated that they'd have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of whom have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.
-- FBI informant Larry Grathwohl, on a meeting attended by Obama and Ayers
Isn't it funny how everything is America's fault? Cuba imprisons people for free speech: America did it. You know how long Cubans have been keeping their own people down by appealing to their xenophobia with such nonsense?
Guess what, when you commit a very serious crime, you have demonstrated that you can't play well with the rest of us, and we decided that you will lose certain civil rights. Such as: not being able to own a firearm, participation in the political process, and ineligibility for military service. Tough shit. Should have thought of that before hurting society. Payback's a bitch, ain't it?
Oops! Thanks for pointing that out. It utterly and completely destroys any point I might have made. The UN is totally blameless in any sort of child sex scandals, yes sir. This is dripping with sarcasm, in case you can't tell.
Here's an idea: maybe the UN should build its own international network instead of laying claims on the work of member nations. Just a thought.
So, the United States is the best of a sorry lot of options? You just described American history since A.D. 1776.
There are other ways to do it. Many, many other ways that don't involve anyone other than yourselves. Get to work, you "international community". Let us know when you're done, we'll provide a gateway between UnitedNationsControlledTheoreticalUtopiaNet and the Internet.
You know, honestly, I have nothing to say about this story, other than ICANN is a bunch of sonofabitches who should enjoy CO2 gas leaks while sleeping in their 5-star hotel rooms. So I'll just comment on the non-story story.
First of all, ICANN as a group is a bunch of people who should have CO2 let into their 5-star hotel rooms while they sleep. I will leave the explanation and justification of this to others who have had first-hand experiences at the hands of ICANN.
Secondly, after reading Wikipedia for so long, the words [citation needed] automatically appear in my head after a phrase like "While some people finding it frightening that a US corporation controls names usage on the Internet". Some people? Who are they, exactly? Can we get a quote from one of them? OMG IT'S AMERIKKKAN CORPRATION DROPPING DEMOCRACY BOMBS OMG RUN FOR THE HILLS MABEL. Come on, this isn't the New York Times here, we need fact-checking by objective observers.
"the prospect of a UN body assuming control raises its own concerns."
Damn straight it does. As much as I despise ICANN, it has never, to my knowledge, been accused of child abuse the way the United Nations has been (warning, the previous website may be blocked based on the human rights attitude of your country or your employer).
So did you have a point with this, or is it just to be an asshole? On what day do you celebrate mathematicians?
3.14159 is drilled into scientist heads from day 1. 22/7 is a uniquely rough approximation used by creationists and other types who cannot get through their heads that irrational numbers exist. But the 22/7 thing is NOT American, and 3/14 IS, so that by definition self-justifies, if only because anything anti-American is intrinsically good.
This "holiday", which does not exist on any calendar...seems sexist and homophobic. Please to be explaining why it is not heterocentric, sir.
Cake is not pie. If I'm expecting pie and you show up with a cake, I shoot you in the anus. No exceptions.
Because it's not a generalization to say, "they're a pack of morons?" Let me guess, you're either a short-timer or an English teacher yourself. It's like saying, "Alabamans are morons." Sure there may be a few diamonds in the rough, but all in all it's a pretty safe statement and if you saw it attached to anything scientific you would never be criticized for skipping it.
We all remember Hurricane Katrina. The mantras of free market solutions and small government have left most western nations with barebones disaster response capabilities.
I see what you did there. Katrina had zero to do with "free markets" and everything to do with corrupt local officials and just plain shitty citizens. I suppose "Schoolbus" Nagin didn't get a lot of press overseas. Look him up. A similar storm, Rita hit Texas a year or two later and the government responded adequately, and Texas is a poster boy of small government. I suppose that didn't make the news in Europe - inconvenient truths and all