It pays to pay at least some attention; she may start an "I want sex" status message by telling you that her sister's neighbor's aunt is going in for a gall stone operation.
Okay that has to be the weirdest way to request relations that I've ever heard of. I promise you not all women are like this. Sure makes me appreciate my wife. She may be a little indirect at times but she doesn't bring her sister, her sister's neighbour or gall stones into the request.
G. was asked to write a defense of his position, in the proper Latin, and submit it to the church. Instead he wrote the defense in Italian so that the average guy could read it, and attempted to make it available to the public before the trial was over. What do we do to people today when a judge gives them some interogatives and they release their answers to the press in an attempt to influence the trial? Right, we find them in contempt and lock them up.
No worse you say??? When exactly was the last time you heard of a western court giving a life sentence for contempt of court? How about threatening to torcher and/or mutilate you?
G. used a character named Simplicio in his dialog, and put words that had been used by some of the church authorities in that character's mouth. He picked quotes that were easy to abuse or make fun of, left out a lot of points that were harder to deal with, and the whole work arguably became a straw man attack. What do most modern judges do if you misquote what they say in court?
They don't threaten you with state sanctioned torcher, suppress your life's work, and imprison you for life.
You have no perspective on the degree of the punishment that was dealt out to Galileo. Even after being forced to recant, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Not even remotely comparable. Galileo was foolish to do what he did, but he didn't deserve to pay for it the way he did, and you should have a little more respect for a guy who advanced science the way he did than to compare him to a modern thug on criminal charges. He may have been a flawed arrogant, and even socially inept man but he also did something great.
I have no problem at all with pointers being illegal to point at an aircraft. When a cop has the power to arrest you for having one on your person, there's something seriously wrong. Even if you wish to trust your police to understand what you're doing with it, he's got one more thing to nail you with if he's corrupt. It's his word against yours. Yes, if he's corrupt he can claim you were pointing it at aircraft, but having that extra onus to prove it is exactly what you need to have a society that doesn't encourage corruption. I've also met some cops who are really pieces of work and wouldn't be able to tell a dobsonian telescope from a bong.
The law was against having them with no legitimate use.. if you have a legitimate use then there's no law against having them. You'd know this if you had read anything about the law in question and you would have read something about it if you cared, so clearly you don't.
I've read plenty about the law you arrogant fool. I just happen not to be naive and stupid enough to trust a NSW cop to recognise a legitimate use, nor a judge to be suitably informed to try a case. How many NSW cops and judges do you know that are into astronomy. How do you tell the difference between an amateur astronomer with a pair of binocs and a laser pointer, and a dickhead who is using the same equipment to "shoot down" planes.
And this tripe gets modded informative. Slashdot has gone to the dogs.
- Find out what your upstream bandwidth is and limit your uploads to half of that. Better yet start off with 4kb upstream and increase it if you don't have problems after half an hour. You may find you're saturating your upstream connection which makes it hard for requests and control data to go upstream.
- Try a different bittorrent client. For instance you might find uTorrent works well, but Azureus brings your net connection to its knees.
We might not have laser pointers (note: that whole debacle was in one state, and it was only for laser pointers up to a certain level of dangerousness, and noone here even gives a shit about it anyway because we don't see the need to own laser pointers), but I'm glad we're not in the same spiraling descent into hell you guys are currently in.
We're right behind them in almost every respect because idiots like you won't fight for something unless YOU stand to gain. You don't use laser pointers, so "we" don't need them. (Bollox to that. Green laser pointers have legitimate uses - like astronomy) Usually every time the US implements some draconian measure it filters back to Aus in 3-5 years tops. We have a few of our own problems too, like not having fair use, not being permitted to backup DVDs without facing the posibility of serving prison time etc.
Galileo was only 'shown the instruments' of torture and placed under house arrest.
Well it was a little more than that. For starters it was house arrest for the rest of his life. Next he was coerced into recanting what he'd said. His life work was banned.
I grant you he wasn't torchered on the rack based on what we know but he didn't get away with it lightly.
...and what I'd like my son to learn (a late ultrasound means we know the sex with great certainty) is problem solving skills, and logic. If he doesn't end up a computer programmer, or in IT, I don't mind. These skills will put him in good stead for a job that doesn't involve manual labour. Even if he wants a job that's labour intensive that's something to fall back on if your body folds up on you early.
What I'd really love would be to be able to give the boy a revenue stream that doesn't make him a wage slave, but realistically that's out of reach for most of us, and if it was within reach there is a risk of spoiling the child if they know they never have to work.
You have this idea of how your child should be and what they should like, and then they shatter your dreams when they start playing sports and getting girlfriends.
Dude, don't worry. Wii Sports and virtual girl aren't real.
If some coder did this at a company at least I'm pretty confident they'd get their ass fired
How does firing a coder who made a mistake fix your company's problem after the fact? People make such mistakes despite such incentives. What's more the practice of firing someone for making a single coding mistake is stupid. If you want that level of security you need lots of peer review.
All this would do is make someone feel good that someone got the boot for it. Your keys are still compromised.
Typical and unfortunate dismissive attitude here when it comes to user feedback.
So a user complains about missing features. You respond that they're accessible from shortcuts??? WHAT? Why would the menu items be removed? In fact the only good reason for removing (rather than enhancing or keeping) features in a new release is that they caused the vast majority of users more problems than they were worth and there was no easy way to keep the workaround and fix those problems.
I'm tired of getting hooked on good software - "free" open source, paid proprietary, it doesn't matter - only to have someone come along and take away features I've come to rely on and thought were fantastic. I'm sick and tired of developers who don't use the software in the same way as the end user (or some subset of end users) insisting they know better.
Next the user attacks the look of feel as being too similar to an OS he clearly dislikes and you half accuse him of trolling and half dismiss his concerns as not related to your work. Oh sure you gave him somewhere to report his issues, but you also left him with the impression he'd be ignored unless lots of others had the same complaint.
Have some pride in your project (not just the snippet you work on), stop cutting features, and learn to take on criticism without being defensive! This guy was giving you gold. You've responded with something akin to "waiter, there's a turd in my soup".
In this case there was an added muppet who did something they shouldn't have... OSS is great but it required great developers
Steady on. This guy just made a coding mistake. Even the best coders do that from time to time.
How would you feel about people who know nothing about you going on about what a muppet you are for FOSS work you did, probably for free, at who knows what time of day and under who knows what circumstances. Way to encourage people to contribute.
This guy probably owes the community an apology of the "whoops, truely sorry, feel sheepish" variety, but doesn't deserve to be called a muppet or a bad developer.
Do you really wonder why Linux hasn't taken off if this is the respect that can be expected from the community?
given that it has take well over a year to get the advisory out it shows that the many eyes piece didn't work here, mainly because the eyes were looking at the original source not the botched packaging job.
Many eyes increases your chances, it doesn't give you an iron-clad guarantee.
The advantage of going with a company is that if a competitor comes up, you can hire the competitor... perhaps as a secondary supplier at first but if they work out you can make them the prime contractor and relegate the previous company as the secondary supplier/contractor.
Ah yes, so if I contract to have a speciality item made, I can have a second one made and double my costs? That might work if:
1) There's no exclusivity deal in the contract. (There often is)
2) It's not a speciality one of item. Your idea works with paper clips, calculators or desktop PCs. It doesn't work so well for an aircraft/spacecraft wing
In other words, you can cut out a company much easier than you can kill a bureau or department from the government.
No company worth their salt will take the risk of you pulling out of the deal without adding a punitive clause.
Look at the regulations regarding the sales and importation of Irish Whiskey and tell me how you are going to kill the government agency that deals with that one product alone (and their fairy god-Senator(s) that protect them). Once an agency is created, it live nearly forever. That isn't necessarily true about a company who does contract work for the government.... which I know unfortunately from first-hand experience.
That simply isn't true. Plenty of government organizations have been axed in the past.
They are a mass of cells that one day could become human. My sperm one day could also become human, does that make masturbation a crime if I don't make every attempt possible to fertilize an egg?? Is a woman committing murder because she doesn't attempt to get pregnant every period??
You just reminded me of Monty Python's Meaning of Life and it's portrayal of Catholocism.
"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If the sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate".
There are parents who know they have medical problems related to their genetics, and yet are still selfish enough to "try for one" instead of adopting one of the 50,000+ or so that die of starvation somewhere in the world.
Before trying to create a master race, name me one person that doesn't have some genetic medical problems. Where do you draw the line? - High blood pressure? - Flat feet? - Short or far sightedness? - Hearing difficulties? - Sleep apnea? - Cancer in the family? - Heart disease in the family? - Obesity? (Anyone in your family at all being fat).
For someone advocating sympathy, you sure aren't very sympathetic. No wonder you choose to remain AC!
NASA, the U.S. populace, and the world in general have no real interest in propulsion systems capable of realistically lifting large payloads into space economically. We've done everything we can in space with the toy payloads we currently lift, and the only real economic sectors which benefit from continued exploration is orbital satellites, something which NASA handles very poorly (i.e. expensively).
Yeah! Who needs those big expensive space telescopes, probes and satellites! We know everything we need to about the universe! Down with science. Hang on. Why's that asteroid getting bigger and bigger?
And you end your post with an enormous attack all based around the idea that I was unable to read your mind
Your attempts at sarcastic humour are wasted. No mind reading is necessary. In the context of me advocating that drivers be trained to deal with distractions, rather than trying to remove all distractions (futile!),it should have been clear that this was a typo. This is the same arugment I've made time and again through our discourse. No mind reading is required, you immature troll.
You repeatedly accuse me of attacks and of failing to have basic comprehension skills. Yet your behavior clearly shows you have either missed my entire basic argument, or are just looking for a way to troll and attack. Not to mention stating that you don't consider me qualified to have an opinion because I'm not a pilot, while simultaneously arguing that you're entitled to have an opinion above those at the FAA that are more qualified than you.
In fact every step of the way you've demonstrated the exact behavior you belittle me for. The irony is wonderful. You've failed to present a logically consistent argument. I suspect I'd have better luck having a rational argument with a psychotic. In fact I don't think you'd recognize a logically consistent argument if it bit you. Forget pilot training. Try some schooling.
I had a drive with a mechanical problem that wouldn't spin up. It didn't have anything critical but it did have my last x weeks worth of software downloads which would have been a pain to re-download. I tried banging it, freezing it, you name it. What worked in the end was making sure it was upside down when it was powered up and giving it a little tap to get it spinning. Got it running for 24 hours - long enough to get all my data off. About 200Gb. Obviously a mechanical failure and obviously pure luck that I got it working again.
Because it allows you to utilise the ideas, labour and capital of the entire population and not just the part supposed to be involved with government.
No it doesn't. You hand your contract out to a company and you're locked into what that company can do. Hand it to a government department and you're locked in to what they can do. Sure you get to pick from a wider set of limitations but neither allows you to use the "ideas, labour and capital of the entire population". You can't hand a contract to Boeing and get input from rival engineers.
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It pays to pay at least some attention; she may start an "I want sex" status message by telling you that her sister's neighbor's aunt is going in for a gall stone operation.
Okay that has to be the weirdest way to request relations that I've ever heard of. I promise you not all women are like this. Sure makes me appreciate my wife. She may be a little indirect at times but she doesn't bring her sister, her sister's neighbour or gall stones into the request.
G. was asked to write a defense of his position, in the proper Latin, and submit it to the church. Instead he wrote the defense in Italian so that the average guy could read it, and attempted to make it available to the public before the trial was over. What do we do to people today when a judge gives them some interogatives and they release their answers to the press in an attempt to influence the trial? Right, we find them in contempt and lock them up.
No worse you say??? When exactly was the last time you heard of a western court giving a life sentence for contempt of court? How about threatening to torcher and/or mutilate you?
G. used a character named Simplicio in his dialog, and put words that had been used by some of the church authorities in that character's mouth. He picked quotes that were easy to abuse or make fun of, left out a lot of points that were harder to deal with, and the whole work arguably became a straw man attack. What do most modern judges do if you misquote what they say in court?
They don't threaten you with state sanctioned torcher, suppress your life's work, and imprison you for life.
You have no perspective on the degree of the punishment that was dealt out to Galileo. Even after being forced to recant, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Not even remotely comparable. Galileo was foolish to do what he did, but he didn't deserve to pay for it the way he did, and you should have a little more respect for a guy who advanced science the way he did than to compare him to a modern thug on criminal charges. He may have been a flawed arrogant, and even socially inept man but he also did something great.
Good for you, trusting person that you are.
I have no problem at all with pointers being illegal to point at an aircraft. When a cop has the power to arrest you for having one on your person, there's something seriously wrong. Even if you wish to trust your police to understand what you're doing with it, he's got one more thing to nail you with if he's corrupt. It's his word against yours. Yes, if he's corrupt he can claim you were pointing it at aircraft, but having that extra onus to prove it is exactly what you need to have a society that doesn't encourage corruption. I've also met some cops who are really pieces of work and wouldn't be able to tell a dobsonian telescope from a bong.
The law was against having them with no legitimate use.. if you have a legitimate use then there's no law against having them. You'd know this if you had read anything about the law in question and you would have read something about it if you cared, so clearly you don't.
I've read plenty about the law you arrogant fool. I just happen not to be naive and stupid enough to trust a NSW cop to recognise a legitimate use, nor a judge to be suitably informed to try a case. How many NSW cops and judges do you know that are into astronomy. How do you tell the difference between an amateur astronomer with a pair of binocs and a laser pointer, and a dickhead who is using the same equipment to "shoot down" planes.
And this tripe gets modded informative. Slashdot has gone to the dogs.
Note, that (iirc) it's only class 3 and 4 lasers that are banned, not all laser pointers.
Unfortunately green class IIIs are exactly what you need to point out astronomical objects...
Some things to try:
- Find out what your upstream bandwidth is and limit your uploads to half of that. Better yet start off with 4kb upstream and increase it if you don't have problems after half an hour. You may find you're saturating your upstream connection which makes it hard for requests and control data to go upstream.
- Try a different bittorrent client. For instance you might find uTorrent works well, but Azureus brings your net connection to its knees.
We might not have laser pointers (note: that whole debacle was in one state, and it was only for laser pointers up to a certain level of dangerousness, and noone here even gives a shit about it anyway because we don't see the need to own laser pointers), but I'm glad we're not in the same spiraling descent into hell you guys are currently in.
We're right behind them in almost every respect because idiots like you won't fight for something unless YOU stand to gain. You don't use laser pointers, so "we" don't need them. (Bollox to that. Green laser pointers have legitimate uses - like astronomy) Usually every time the US implements some draconian measure it filters back to Aus in 3-5 years tops. We have a few of our own problems too, like not having fair use, not being permitted to backup DVDs without facing the posibility of serving prison time etc.
Galileo was only 'shown the instruments' of torture and placed under house arrest.
Well it was a little more than that. For starters it was house arrest for the rest of his life. Next he was coerced into recanting what he'd said. His life work was banned.
I grant you he wasn't torchered on the rack based on what we know but he didn't get away with it lightly.
Sounds about as scientific as all their other espisodes.
...and what I'd like my son to learn (a late ultrasound means we know the sex with great certainty) is problem solving skills, and logic. If he doesn't end up a computer programmer, or in IT, I don't mind. These skills will put him in good stead for a job that doesn't involve manual labour. Even if he wants a job that's labour intensive that's something to fall back on if your body folds up on you early.
What I'd really love would be to be able to give the boy a revenue stream that doesn't make him a wage slave, but realistically that's out of reach for most of us, and if it was within reach there is a risk of spoiling the child if they know they never have to work.
You have this idea of how your child should be and what they should like, and then they shatter your dreams when they start playing sports and getting girlfriends.
Dude, don't worry. Wii Sports and virtual girl aren't real.
If some coder did this at a company at least I'm pretty confident they'd get their ass fired
How does firing a coder who made a mistake fix your company's problem after the fact? People make such mistakes despite such incentives. What's more the practice of firing someone for making a single coding mistake is stupid. If you want that level of security you need lots of peer review.
All this would do is make someone feel good that someone got the boot for it. Your keys are still compromised.
Typical and unfortunate dismissive attitude here when it comes to user feedback.
So a user complains about missing features. You respond that they're accessible from shortcuts??? WHAT? Why would the menu items be removed? In fact the only good reason for removing (rather than enhancing or keeping) features in a new release is that they caused the vast majority of users more problems than they were worth and there was no easy way to keep the workaround and fix those problems.
I'm tired of getting hooked on good software - "free" open source, paid proprietary, it doesn't matter - only to have someone come along and take away features I've come to rely on and thought were fantastic. I'm sick and tired of developers who don't use the software in the same way as the end user (or some subset of end users) insisting they know better.
Next the user attacks the look of feel as being too similar to an OS he clearly dislikes and you half accuse him of trolling and half dismiss his concerns as not related to your work. Oh sure you gave him somewhere to report his issues, but you also left him with the impression he'd be ignored unless lots of others had the same complaint.
Have some pride in your project (not just the snippet you work on), stop cutting features, and learn to take on criticism without being defensive! This guy was giving you gold. You've responded with something akin to "waiter, there's a turd in my soup".
By the way I don't know the GP at all.
In this case there was an added muppet who did something they shouldn't have ...
OSS is great but it required great developers
Steady on. This guy just made a coding mistake. Even the best coders do that from time to time.
How would you feel about people who know nothing about you going on about what a muppet you are for FOSS work you did, probably for free, at who knows what time of day and under who knows what circumstances. Way to encourage people to contribute.
This guy probably owes the community an apology of the "whoops, truely sorry, feel sheepish" variety, but doesn't deserve to be called a muppet or a bad developer.
Do you really wonder why Linux hasn't taken off if this is the respect that can be expected from the community?
given that it has take well over a year to get the advisory out it shows that the many eyes piece didn't work here, mainly because the eyes were looking at the original source not the botched packaging job.
Many eyes increases your chances, it doesn't give you an iron-clad guarantee.
The patch that broke it was checked in by Kurt Roeckx [kroeckx@debian.org].
a.k.a. Mr Unemployable.
a.k.a. MUD
Seriously I wonder what the employment consequences for making such a high profile mistake on an open source project are.
The advantage of going with a company is that if a competitor comes up, you can hire the competitor... perhaps as a secondary supplier at first but if they work out you can make them the prime contractor and relegate the previous company as the secondary supplier/contractor.
Ah yes, so if I contract to have a speciality item made, I can have a second one made and double my costs? That might work if:
1) There's no exclusivity deal in the contract. (There often is)
2) It's not a speciality one of item. Your idea works with paper clips, calculators or desktop PCs. It doesn't work so well for an aircraft/spacecraft wing
In other words, you can cut out a company much easier than you can kill a bureau or department from the government.
No company worth their salt will take the risk of you pulling out of the deal without adding a punitive clause.
Look at the regulations regarding the sales and importation of Irish Whiskey and tell me how you are going to kill the government agency that deals with that one product alone (and their fairy god-Senator(s) that protect them). Once an agency is created, it live nearly forever. That isn't necessarily true about a company who does contract work for the government.... which I know unfortunately from first-hand experience.
That simply isn't true. Plenty of government organizations have been axed in the past.
They are a mass of cells that one day could become human. My sperm one day could also become human, does that make masturbation a crime if I don't make every attempt possible to fertilize an egg?? Is a woman committing murder because she doesn't attempt to get pregnant every period??
You just reminded me of Monty Python's Meaning of Life and it's portrayal of Catholocism.
"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If the sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate".
Where did you get a figure like 2 years? I've seen 6 months old that were perfectly aware of their own presence.
Here's something that talks about self awareness in the first month:
http://www.evenflo.com/Home/ParentingResources/Articles/Month1AwakeningAwareness/tabid/115/Default.aspx
There are parents who know they have medical problems related to their genetics, and yet are still selfish enough to "try for one" instead of adopting one of the 50,000+ or so that die of starvation somewhere in the world.
Before trying to create a master race, name me one person that doesn't have some genetic medical problems. Where do you draw the line?
- High blood pressure?
- Flat feet?
- Short or far sightedness?
- Hearing difficulties?
- Sleep apnea?
- Cancer in the family?
- Heart disease in the family?
- Obesity? (Anyone in your family at all being fat).
For someone advocating sympathy, you sure aren't very sympathetic. No wonder you choose to remain AC!
You're most welcome.
NASA, the U.S. populace, and the world in general have no real interest in propulsion systems capable of realistically lifting large payloads into space economically. We've done everything we can in space with the toy payloads we currently lift, and the only real economic sectors which benefit from continued exploration is orbital satellites, something which NASA handles very poorly (i.e. expensively).
Yeah! Who needs those big expensive space telescopes, probes and satellites! We know everything we need to about the universe! Down with science. Hang on. Why's that asteroid getting bigger and bigger?
There are other things you should cut before space exploration.
And you end your post with an enormous attack all based around the idea that I was unable to read your mind
Your attempts at sarcastic humour are wasted. No mind reading is necessary. In the context of me advocating that drivers be trained to deal with distractions, rather than trying to remove all distractions (futile!),it should have been clear that this was a typo. This is the same arugment I've made time and again through our discourse. No mind reading is required, you immature troll.
You repeatedly accuse me of attacks and of failing to have basic comprehension skills. Yet your behavior clearly shows you have either missed my entire basic argument, or are just looking for a way to troll and attack. Not to mention stating that you don't consider me qualified to have an opinion because I'm not a pilot, while simultaneously arguing that you're entitled to have an opinion above those at the FAA that are more qualified than you.
In fact every step of the way you've demonstrated the exact behavior you belittle me for. The irony is wonderful. You've failed to present a logically consistent argument. I suspect I'd have better luck having a rational argument with a psychotic. In fact I don't think you'd recognize a logically consistent argument if it bit you. Forget pilot training. Try some schooling.
I had a drive with a mechanical problem that wouldn't spin up. It didn't have anything critical but it did have my last x weeks worth of software downloads which would have been a pain to re-download. I tried banging it, freezing it, you name it. What worked in the end was making sure it was upside down when it was powered up and giving it a little tap to get it spinning. Got it running for 24 hours - long enough to get all my data off. About 200Gb. Obviously a mechanical failure and obviously pure luck that I got it working again.
Because it allows you to utilise the ideas, labour and capital of the entire population and not just the part supposed to be involved with government.
No it doesn't. You hand your contract out to a company and you're locked into what that company can do. Hand it to a government department and you're locked in to what they can do. Sure you get to pick from a wider set of limitations but neither allows you to use the "ideas, labour and capital of the entire population". You can't hand a contract to Boeing and get input from rival engineers.