And then we link to the fiasco on slashdot and woops!, the rest of the entire internet is now implicated in some massive foreign conspiracy against the united states.
Amen. The problem is, people don't think about kids any more. It's just assumed you should have kids. Why? Who the fuck knows. We have plenty of people on earth, and vast quantities of orphans needing homes. Children are more like accessories or dress-up-dolls. Gee, is it tough to raise your child? TOUGH SHIT. Why should I, a single tax payer, have to subsidize not only your child's education, but their upbringing. It's not as if anybody FORCED you to have a child. It was a CHOICE you made, fully aware of the dangers of this world, including wars, poverty, homelessness, mental and physical abuse of all sorts. You committed to bringing another living being here, so YOU are responsible. We might as well have a Defense Of Everything Act, where every citizen can be safe of all hazard through complete surrender of their rights.
(I'd like to note that from the tone and characterization of feminism that the parent poster appears to be right of center. I'm left of center and associate myself with "feminism" which is really just "humanism", and nevertheless I believe I am in wholehearted agreement and I don't think there is any conflict here. In fact, I think it is necessary and just for the parents (women and men) to be responsible (and to be allowed that responsibility) for deciding whether they are going to have children or not. Children don't just fall out of the sky one day.)
Holy shit, there is porn on the internet! Who the hell cares. Why the hell is my government so damn concerned about porn? It's like they're...obsessed. You'd think they'd care more about important issues like, say, border security and immigration, massive deficits, a grueling guerrilla war that's draining the country, the massive health care problem in the country. For the love of god, please knock it the fuck off with the porn obsession already.
If you don't like porn, nobody is FORCING you to view it on the internet. Just stay away from it. This a non-issue.
What's next, the thought police coming to for us because we are thinking thoughts that don't conform to state morality?
And it sells crap because it doesn't respect its customers. It thinks they are stupid and they are probably right.
I went into WalMart once many years ago to buy a simple knife set. Now, I don't know a lot about knives, but we got home and discovered that the knife set was somehow "left-handed" or something...the taper on the blade was on the opposite side than expected (really I don't know if knives should be tapered on both sides or what). It is a bitch to use those fucking knifes because they slip and are hard to handle and cut the wrong way. They're useless. Possibly some second-run merchandise. Just like the fake Levis, etc.
Basically Wall Mart was saying: you are a dumbshit and we don't care, thank you, come again
Even if I wasn't morally opposed to WalMart I would never buy there for practical reasons: you never know if what you buy is some defective crap. Being haunted by the idea that anything you buy there is going to break or be worthless really is not worth the measly savings.
I think that's a silly claim. Are you really saying that it is inconceivable that constant exposure to some toxin/disturbance over an entire lifetime really has no effect just because instantaneous exposure a couple of times a year seems to have no effect?
Confidence and complacency in your democracy might well be the worse threat to democracy. Oh yeah, and guys clothed in rags living in caves on the other side of the world.
Modularization and reuse are sort of like, fundamental concepts to good programming. First you need to at LEAST be familiar with the constructs provided by the languages you are using. That will probably lead directly to your strategy. As far as "storing" the libraries that should be no different than storing any of your other code, reused or not. Subversion is a good choice. Although to be technically correct, one must make a distinction between version control and storage/backup. Don't use one for the other.
I have it from a reputable (to me at least) biologist and veterinarian that this has been blown out of proportion. This only affects people under very specific criteria (e.g. pregnant females). Clearly not "50%" of the earth's population is schizophrenice (although I sometimes wonder). Bottom line, unless you are regularly eating your cat's crap, you don't have any need to worry (and if you are, hopefully this announcement wasn't the first alarm about your behavoir).
Quantify "mainstream". Vocal christian fundamentalists won Bush his elections. That seems pretty damn "mainstream" enough, at least apparently as far as the Republican party is willing take money and votes is concerned. Do Republicans know the difference between mainstream Republicans and christian fundamentalists? Do they care?
Well, there was coverage of a Congressional hearing on CSPAN last night over this very issue, with a panel including Lawrence Lessing, an Internet 2 guy, an economist, and some industry spokesperson from a group with a typical name like "Freedom and Progress Foundation". Basically Larry and the Internet 2 guy were really trying to make the case that the existing policy of neutrality was the entire reason that the internet is as successful as it is today, and that "access tiering" which would restrict competition should not be allowed.
Unfortunately I can't find any record of this on CSPAN, and all the TV schedules just read "Congress" "Congress" "Congress" with no details.:(
"subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth"
Hey I remember that. **HIGH FIVE** It's a lot of fun trying not to choke on your own saliva being produced in gallons to try to dissolve that sour stuff.
I don't know if can cite any specific law to back that up, but reverse engineering (of which "decompiling" is certainly a strategy) is still, and should always be, legal. Now, BECAUSE of this, most software has nasty decompilation clauses in their EULAs, so you have to agree to them to license the software (although I think it is a open question as to whether you can just NOT accept the license and proceed with the decompilation - as long as you don't ever actually "use" the product).
I agree. The "leadership" indoctrination starts all the way back in secondary school where there is constant pressure to accrete nebulous "leadership" qualifications by being associated with any an all extra-curricular activities regardless of their merit. It's a complete farce. We need more representatives that know how to FOLLOW the public they claim to represent. Which is why it also annoys me when politicians say stupid things like "I don't pay attention to polls". HELLO, why the fuck not? That is your JOB. That would be like a private in the military commenting "I don't pay attention to superiors".
Uh, have we entered some new bizarre Orwellian Twilight Zone? So basically an uncrackable secret black box that the government can install on any machine to intercept any traffic with no ability for the surveilled party to repudiate the content (or perhaps even be aware of the surveillance?) is somehow a win for privacy? WTF.
BREAKING NEWS. The government has devised a fool proof plan to protect your privacy. They will simply garrison an intelligence agent in your house recording everything you do to make sure that the government doesn't inappropriately invade your privacy. (for your own safety please do not attempt to resist; you will have to be beaten to protect your own privacy, after which you will be dumped in a shallow unmarked grave - again for your privacy)
Surprise! Humans have the provincial notion that things "mean" things and impute that since machines don't hold this notion that somehow humans are superior in having the ability-to-imbue-meaning.
Nothing means anything. Just because we fool ourselves into believing so doesn't make us "better" than machines. In fact, the insistence on "meaning" may very well impede the search for truth because we really only want to believe things that we understand and that have meaning. Quantum mechanics is very "meaningless" but it no less truthful because of its lack of meaning to *us*.
Next we'll say machines are inferior because they can't love or sweat or get heartburn.
Slashdot Mirror
Finally those brits will be able to generate the funniest joke in the world.
And then we link to the fiasco on slashdot and woops!, the rest of the entire internet is now implicated in some massive foreign conspiracy against the united states.
"of the 123 purported errors in question, Britannica takes issue with fewer than half."
Nature - we aim for less than 50% inaccuracy!
Amen. The problem is, people don't think about kids any more. It's just assumed you should have kids. Why? Who the fuck knows. We have plenty of people on earth, and vast quantities of orphans needing homes. Children are more like accessories or dress-up-dolls. Gee, is it tough to raise your child? TOUGH SHIT. Why should I, a single tax payer, have to subsidize not only your child's education, but their upbringing. It's not as if anybody FORCED you to have a child. It was a CHOICE you made, fully aware of the dangers of this world, including wars, poverty, homelessness, mental and physical abuse of all sorts. You committed to bringing another living being here, so YOU are responsible. We might as well have a Defense Of Everything Act, where every citizen can be safe of all hazard through complete surrender of their rights.
(I'd like to note that from the tone and characterization of feminism that the parent poster appears to be right of center. I'm left of center and associate myself with "feminism" which is really just "humanism", and nevertheless I believe I am in wholehearted agreement and I don't think there is any conflict here. In fact, I think it is necessary and just for the parents (women and men) to be responsible (and to be allowed that responsibility) for deciding whether they are going to have children or not. Children don't just fall out of the sky one day.)
Holy shit, there is porn on the internet! Who the hell cares. Why the hell is my government so damn concerned about porn? It's like they're...obsessed. You'd think they'd care more about important issues like, say, border security and immigration, massive deficits, a grueling guerrilla war that's draining the country, the massive health care problem in the country. For the love of god, please knock it the fuck off with the porn obsession already.
If you don't like porn, nobody is FORCING you to view it on the internet. Just stay away from it. This a non-issue.
What's next, the thought police coming to for us because we are thinking thoughts that don't conform to state morality?
And it sells crap because it doesn't respect its customers. It thinks they are stupid and they are probably right.
I went into WalMart once many years ago to buy a simple knife set. Now, I don't know a lot about knives, but we got home and discovered that the knife set was somehow "left-handed" or something...the taper on the blade was on the opposite side than expected (really I don't know if knives should be tapered on both sides or what). It is a bitch to use those fucking knifes because they slip and are hard to handle and cut the wrong way. They're useless. Possibly some second-run merchandise. Just like the fake Levis, etc.
Basically Wall Mart was saying: you are a dumbshit and we don't care, thank you, come again
Even if I wasn't morally opposed to WalMart I would never buy there for practical reasons: you never know if what you buy is some defective crap. Being haunted by the idea that anything you buy there is going to break or be worthless really is not worth the measly savings.
I guess not a lot of people in tuttle use the "World Wibe Web".
Hilarity. I sure hope there is a TV show in the works.
"That darn Mr. Taylor!"
"When websites attack"
I think that's a silly claim. Are you really saying that it is inconceivable that constant exposure to some toxin/disturbance over an entire lifetime really has no effect just because instantaneous exposure a couple of times a year seems to have no effect?
You Slashdot granfaloons just worships the wampeter of technology. It's all foma.
Confidence and complacency in your democracy might well be the worse threat to democracy. Oh yeah, and guys clothed in rags living in caves on the other side of the world.
Um, I know I got Doom 3 pretty late and have been playing late into the night but...is this a real news item?
Have we now moved into an era in which even NON-EXISTENT technology is already being OBSOLETED before it becomes real?
This just in: hydrogen fuel is officially obsolete; dilithium crystal is the fuel of the future
Modularization and reuse are sort of like, fundamental concepts to good programming. First you need to at LEAST be familiar with the constructs provided by the languages you are using. That will probably lead directly to your strategy. As far as "storing" the libraries that should be no different than storing any of your other code, reused or not. Subversion is a good choice. Although to be technically correct, one must make a distinction between version control and storage/backup. Don't use one for the other.
I have it from a reputable (to me at least) biologist and veterinarian that this has been blown out of proportion. This only affects people under very specific criteria (e.g. pregnant females). Clearly not "50%" of the earth's population is schizophrenice (although I sometimes wonder). Bottom line, unless you are regularly eating your cat's crap, you don't have any need to worry (and if you are, hopefully this announcement wasn't the first alarm about your behavoir).
"who needs domain names anymore"
um, "surfing" the web is not the only use for domain names
Quantify "mainstream". Vocal christian fundamentalists won Bush his elections. That seems pretty damn "mainstream" enough, at least apparently as far as the Republican party is willing take money and votes is concerned. Do Republicans know the difference between mainstream Republicans and christian fundamentalists? Do they care?
Well, there was coverage of a Congressional hearing on CSPAN last night over this very issue, with a panel including Lawrence Lessing, an Internet 2 guy, an economist, and some industry spokesperson from a group with a typical name like "Freedom and Progress Foundation". Basically Larry and the Internet 2 guy were really trying to make the case that the existing policy of neutrality was the entire reason that the internet is as successful as it is today, and that "access tiering" which would restrict competition should not be allowed.
:(
Unfortunately I can't find any record of this on CSPAN, and all the TV schedules just read "Congress" "Congress" "Congress" with no details.
"subjected to sitting in a dentists chair for 15 minutes while a mould with a concentrated fluoride gel where held against my teeth"
Hey I remember that. **HIGH FIVE** It's a lot of fun trying not to choke on your own saliva being produced in gallons to try to dissolve that sour stuff.
"VB killer"
Hasn't VB already been killed by general disregard and disgust?
"Decompilation is generally not legal"
I don't know if can cite any specific law to back that up, but reverse engineering (of which "decompiling" is certainly a strategy) is still, and should always be, legal. Now, BECAUSE of this, most software has nasty decompilation clauses in their EULAs, so you have to agree to them to license the software (although I think it is a open question as to whether you can just NOT accept the license and proceed with the decompilation - as long as you don't ever actually "use" the product).
I agree. The "leadership" indoctrination starts all the way back in secondary school where there is constant pressure to accrete nebulous "leadership" qualifications by being associated with any an all extra-curricular activities regardless of their merit. It's a complete farce. We need more representatives that know how to FOLLOW the public they claim to represent. Which is why it also annoys me when politicians say stupid things like "I don't pay attention to polls". HELLO, why the fuck not? That is your JOB. That would be like a private in the military commenting "I don't pay attention to superiors".
I pray for England...
Uh, have we entered some new bizarre Orwellian Twilight Zone? So basically an uncrackable secret black box that the government can install on any machine to intercept any traffic with no ability for the surveilled party to repudiate the content (or perhaps even be aware of the surveillance?) is somehow a win for privacy? WTF.
BREAKING NEWS. The government has devised a fool proof plan to protect your privacy. They will simply garrison an intelligence agent in your house recording everything you do to make sure that the government doesn't inappropriately invade your privacy. (for your own safety please do not attempt to resist; you will have to be beaten to protect your own privacy, after which you will be dumped in a shallow unmarked grave - again for your privacy)
Does it work with Slashdot "Light" mode?
Surprise! Humans have the provincial notion that things "mean" things and impute that since machines don't hold this notion that somehow humans are superior in having the ability-to-imbue-meaning.
Nothing means anything. Just because we fool ourselves into believing so doesn't make us "better" than machines. In fact, the insistence on "meaning" may very well impede the search for truth because we really only want to believe things that we understand and that have meaning. Quantum mechanics is very "meaningless" but it no less truthful because of its lack of meaning to *us*.
Next we'll say machines are inferior because they can't love or sweat or get heartburn.