A corporation is there to serve my interests, if I have interest in it. They are a fictional entity created for monetary gain. They are NOT equivalent to a person, and NEVER should they be. When corporations start defining what we the people can do then they are overstepping their boundaries. I firmly believe the internet is there for the sole purpose of serving its users, nothing more.
Really, this is fucking awesome. They complain when we the public have secrets, but they claim they need to have their own secrets, look, if you're going to rub my crotch when I go visit my brother or grandma, don't fucking expect any sympathy when you're plotting shit with radical governments and that crap gets out. If you want privacy, give me back mine.
What the hell is [Illegal media]? And how do you download any sort of media?
Well, according to dictionary.com, Media is the plural of medium, which is, as we all know, "a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living". Thus, "Illegal Media" are illegal shaman immigrants. I'm guessing "download" would be to make them carry lots of stuff? I guess making them work isn't that bad..? Unless they start channeling me-maw, then you're in for a world of tongue lashings.
[...]but simple logic says that there is a unified equation.
Can you elaborate? The only thing I can think of is a bigger "Game of Life" type thing... Is that what you mean? Seeming complexity from simple equations?
The problem is then the people in management don't understand it so they force the tech people to "dumb it down" to the point where it becomes essentially false. For example:
Cookies can store data about where you have been and what ads you have seen. Therefore, cookies can be used to track you.
Use Boxee on top of Ubuntu, with a small nettop like an acer aspire revo - just as long as it's an atom with ion processor. You could also just wait a bit for the boxee box to come out:) XBMC, if you get the right plugins, can do all of this but I like boxee's implementation.
He's not completely psycho. Discovery's (TLC's) support of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, 19 Kids and Counting, etc is disgusting. Those parents should be in jail, not rolling in money.
Make it into a death ray! Add mirrors all along the inside and they will focus to a point where the collector is.:)
http://hackaday.com/2005/03/23/solar-death-ray/
link in the article is dead but it has a picture:)
Simplistically:
If THEY bought out 50% of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would only have a 50% chance of having one first.
Unfortunately, that same 50% chance collapsed to a more stable 0 once observed.
How the hell do people keep making mistakes with their english all over the internet? Are you really too busy to re-read what you've just written? "the each"?? really? Every time I read something like this I get a hiccup in my mind and have to mentally process what it is you're actually trying to say. Granted, it's minor and easy to figure out but it's annoying none the less. A little proofreading goes a long way towards legibility.
At work, we got a quote from dell for computers, I requested a price without windows, and they gave me a quote for a computer which was about $200 more than the *SAME* computer with *more* RAM and windows preinstalled (along with a bunch of bloatware I assume). WTF. Where is this shit coming from? I'm pretty much being PAID to have a Microsoft OS on the system!! I'm tempted to just take it and install Linux on it (as requested) and just keep the Windows License for other systems that need the upgrade.
I wouldn't put it past the Taliban to train a monkey to do a man's job. It's probably cheaper to get a monkey to blow themselves up, especially if the monkey is expecting to receive bananas.
It's not just any old bananas though, it's 14 virgin bananas.
If the Public Domain erodes, so too does our cultural identity. Sounds hyperbolic, but it is true. How far back do you want to go? Shall we just end the PD as a possibility, and all things are owned for all time? Who does that benefit, outside those whose items would be escheated to?
So you also clearly don't keep health insurance for your family, don't benefit from (in no particular order) police services, fire departments, curb-side trash removal, winter snow removal, labor regulation, environmental regulation, judicial services, etc.
Why are so many people willfully ignorant of what services modern governments pay for from their taxes?
It's because they train themselves to ignore other people. It is all about them after all.
If two theories explain the same data equally well, the simplest is more likely.
Is that really the case? That seems like it's a very hominid-centric assumption. I can't think of any counter examples but it seems very naïve to assume that the nature of the Universe would be simple...? Though, perhaps my understanding is limited.
you (the west) hold up crack dealers and gangsters as heroes (50cent et al), corporate psychopaths are held up as examples of "successful business leaders" and have TV shows (the apprentice) where people are expected to emulate these leaders in "ruthless business decisions", where kids see a class of people rip off their savings and retirements (bankers) and have 0 consequences, where a celebrity class are held up as models of behaviour where you dont work but shop on your working husbands/wifes credit cards or your rich dads inheritance
and you are surprised there is less empathy ?
i'm surprised there are no fucking lynch mobs
I live in the "west" (strange, everything,if you go far enough, is both west and east of me, even myself, so technically, you yourself are this "west" of which you speak).
I think 50 cent is a chump, I think corporations need to be abolished, or at least required to be responsible as all good citizens are, I never liked "The Apprentice", nor the people who won, I never expect any sort of emulation of the sort of American Psycho you describe, I think people who prey on the elderly need to be put in jail, and I certainly have no debt nor am I clamoring to spend a fortune.
Thus, your generalization is false, as all generalizations are. Wait a minute...
Slashdot Mirror
Sure beats a self-knitted sweater, formed for a mutant, with asymmetric arm lengths, a hunchback and a hole in the stomach area for the tentacle.
And yes, I speak from experience.
Man, school must have been rough for you.
A corporation is there to serve my interests, if I have interest in it. They are a fictional entity created for monetary gain. They are NOT equivalent to a person, and NEVER should they be. When corporations start defining what we the people can do then they are overstepping their boundaries. I firmly believe the internet is there for the sole purpose of serving its users, nothing more.
Really, this is fucking awesome. They complain when we the public have secrets, but they claim they need to have their own secrets, look, if you're going to rub my crotch when I go visit my brother or grandma, don't fucking expect any sympathy when you're plotting shit with radical governments and that crap gets out. If you want privacy, give me back mine.
The truth will set you free.
So honest people have to do extra work, and cheaters get a second chance. What a great life lesson this school is teaching.
From what I've seen in politics, banking, business, and pretty much anything else in the world, it's a fairly realistic lesson.
4chan can use their powers for good?
Um... I just don't know how to process that information...
4chan strikes me a bit more like the classic greek gods, capricious, capable of granting blessings and curses on a whim.
Just don't tell them that.
What the hell is [Illegal media]? And how do you download any sort of media?
Well, according to dictionary.com, Media is the plural of medium, which is, as we all know, "a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living". Thus, "Illegal Media" are illegal shaman immigrants. I'm guessing "download" would be to make them carry lots of stuff? I guess making them work isn't that bad..? Unless they start channeling me-maw, then you're in for a world of tongue lashings.
[...]but simple logic says that there is a unified equation.
Can you elaborate? The only thing I can think of is a bigger "Game of Life" type thing... Is that what you mean? Seeming complexity from simple equations?
The problem is then the people in management don't understand it so they force the tech people to "dumb it down" to the point where it becomes essentially false. For example:
Cookies can store data about where you have been and what ads you have seen. Therefore, cookies can be used to track you.
Soon becomes:
Cookies track data about people.
Eventually becomes:
Cookies are a privacy threat.
Which gets read by the masses as:
Cookies are viruses.
Which then gets read as:
You'll get sick from eating cookies.
Which is true, if you eat enough I think.
Use Boxee on top of Ubuntu, with a small nettop like an acer aspire revo - just as long as it's an atom with ion processor. You could also just wait a bit for the boxee box to come out :) XBMC, if you get the right plugins, can do all of this but I like boxee's implementation.
He's not completely psycho. Discovery's (TLC's) support of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, 19 Kids and Counting, etc is disgusting. Those parents should be in jail, not rolling in money.
I wish I could mod you up beyond 10.
Make it into a death ray! Add mirrors all along the inside and they will focus to a point where the collector is. :)
http://hackaday.com/2005/03/23/solar-death-ray/
link in the article is dead but it has a picture :)
Simplistically: If THEY bought out 50% of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would only have a 50% chance of having one first.
Unfortunately, that same 50% chance collapsed to a more stable 0 once observed.
This is 90% of what makes the American government unworkable.
And the other 20% is stupidity.
So... you work for the government?
USCG stole something else as well then, their Acronym. USCG is the US COAST GUARD, not the US Copyright Group. These guys should get a clue.
Thank you so much for using "their" in the proper context! At last! I have read a slashdot comment with proper grammar!!!
How the hell do people keep making mistakes with their english all over the internet? Are you really too busy to re-read what you've just written? "the each"?? really? Every time I read something like this I get a hiccup in my mind and have to mentally process what it is you're actually trying to say. Granted, it's minor and easy to figure out but it's annoying none the less. A little proofreading goes a long way towards legibility.
At work, we got a quote from dell for computers, I requested a price without windows, and they gave me a quote for a computer which was about $200 more than the *SAME* computer with *more* RAM and windows preinstalled (along with a bunch of bloatware I assume). WTF. Where is this shit coming from? I'm pretty much being PAID to have a Microsoft OS on the system!! I'm tempted to just take it and install Linux on it (as requested) and just keep the Windows License for other systems that need the upgrade.
Maybe they are?
I wouldn't put it past the Taliban to train a monkey to do a man's job. It's probably cheaper to get a monkey to blow themselves up, especially if the monkey is expecting to receive bananas.
It's not just any old bananas though, it's 14 virgin bananas.
the incompetent can be easily caught. Perhaps these were even decoys for the competent operation still running.
This sounds like the plot to Spies like Us
And if you want to get it from the horse's mouth these days, you can now more than ever.
You mean: http://horsesmouth.typepad.com/
;)
I fail to see how a blog about water sports is relevant??
If the Public Domain erodes, so too does our cultural identity. Sounds hyperbolic, but it is true. How far back do you want to go? Shall we just end the PD as a possibility, and all things are owned for all time? Who does that benefit, outside those whose items would be escheated to?
Lawyers.
So you also clearly don't keep health insurance for your family, don't benefit from (in no particular order) police services, fire departments, curb-side trash removal, winter snow removal, labor regulation, environmental regulation, judicial services, etc.
Why are so many people willfully ignorant of what services modern governments pay for from their taxes?
It's because they train themselves to ignore other people. It is all about them after all.
Could he be sued for this by someone who gets infected?
Don't be stupid. It isn't the messenger's fault.
King Leonidas would disagree with you.
If two theories explain the same data equally well, the simplest is more likely.
Is that really the case? That seems like it's a very hominid-centric assumption. I can't think of any counter examples but it seems very naïve to assume that the nature of the Universe would be simple...? Though, perhaps my understanding is limited.
you (the west) hold up crack dealers and gangsters as heroes (50cent et al), corporate psychopaths are held up as examples of "successful business leaders" and have TV shows (the apprentice) where people are expected to emulate these leaders in "ruthless business decisions", where kids see a class of people rip off their savings and retirements (bankers) and have 0 consequences, where a celebrity class are held up as models of behaviour where you dont work but shop on your working husbands/wifes credit cards or your rich dads inheritance
and you are surprised there is less empathy ? i'm surprised there are no fucking lynch mobs
I live in the "west" (strange, everything,if you go far enough, is both west and east of me, even myself, so technically, you yourself are this "west" of which you speak).
I think 50 cent is a chump, I think corporations need to be abolished, or at least required to be responsible as all good citizens are, I never liked "The Apprentice", nor the people who won, I never expect any sort of emulation of the sort of American Psycho you describe, I think people who prey on the elderly need to be put in jail, and I certainly have no debt nor am I clamoring to spend a fortune.
Thus, your generalization is false, as all generalizations are. Wait a minute...