basically this kid crossed the line from harmless internet troll, to potential killer
Everybody is a "potential" killer. The kid never showed any sign of committing real violence. He crossed a line, several lines, but was nowhere near the "murder" line.
Yeah, he was obnoxious and threatening online. He sent the guy a box of ashes. That was still purely symbolic "violence".
Right. Because they speak English on Caprica and use English spelling and rules of grammar. That wiki is just how some fans rationalise things. Anyway, an acronym you speak as a single word rather than spell out (D_R_A_D_I_S) is usually written lower case -- radar, laser, etc.
Here you go, doing exactly what I was being critical of. Making stuff up. There's NO sign in that show that it is instantaneous.
Oh, really? And yet...
It's visible. Immediately. No light-speed delay.
So, aside from you immediately refuting yourself, I can recall them showing ships across a solar system, light hours away.There's never more than a few seconds delay. And that more for the sweeping of whatever it is that they beam out in analogy to microwaves. It was called dradis for a reason, so they could make it do whatever they wanted dramatically. If they had wanted to limit it to real world EM and lightspeed, they would have done that. They had plenty enough antique technology.
ell name a SINGLE Internet word we old greybeards came up with that hasn't been butchered all to hell by folks that don't get it had a specific meaning
Well, "net" lingo usually borrows and perverts vocabulary from other realms. "Troll" is a bit of wordplay on the net fishing method and the mythical monster. "Geek" used to be a guy who bit the head of chickens in a circus sideshow. You can't complain too much when the words receive wider usage and change their meanings again.
It's not "an issue" in America, because any idiot with $100 can already buy a gun, and have it in his hand a lot faster than crafting it on a 3D printer.
Google "buy guns cheap" and have your credit card ready.
if he's in need of help or cornholed by a huge black guy named Thunderdick. But something needs to be done, or we'll all be reading about this asshat's killing spree with our Post Toasties.
Since he's in Ireland and not California, none of your scenarios are likely.
We keep getting stories here about how foolish it is to demonise video games, because there's a difference between virtual violence and real violence. This guy was a jerk and needs to be taught a lesson, but not punished as if he'd actually physically assaulted someone.
There are plenty of reasons to prefer a central city environment to the countryside/suburbs. It's much easier to bring peace and quiet to a city apartment than to bring great food, nightlife, jobs and shops to the countryside or suburbs.
He never said why he is living there. He should weigh up the pros and cons. All we know is that he hates the noise. And air quality above a busy intersection will be bad and unhealthy too. You need a really good reason to put up with all that. He said it was his "home office". So he could presumably work anywhere, unless he needed to have clients visit.
"I live at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in my city "
Why? If you value peace and quiet and fresh air, move to the countryside and you won't have to insulate yourself from your surroundings. A city of 350,000 can't be that big that you would have a long commute when you needed to get into the city.
In BSG - for instance - every time we see observation of enemy ship positions, the sensors used (DRADIS) appear to be active sensors, not passive. A cylon basestar jumping 3 light minutes away from Galactica wouldn't observe its presence for six minutes. At least in that show, such vast distances weren't particularly useful.
Also it's "dradis". Which isn't explained, but does appear to be effectively instantaneous. When they start a scan they get an image from millions of miles away in seconds. In BSG they have FTL travel, so FTL "radar" isn't out of the question.
Anyway, the incredulity came with the robot Cylon fighters not being able to hit the side of a barn, despite being designed to be killing machines and having faster ships; while the human piloted fighters could take out Cylons pretty easily. And neither side seemed to have guided missiles. It was a lot more gritty than Star Wars, but not really a lot more logical. (Especially at the fucking stupid end, but that's a longer rant for another time.)
It's impossible to find any Google staff for issues about "Google groups" which is what they call their version of Usenet after they embraced and extinguished it. They enabled a tidal wave of spam to destroy all the technical groups that had survived everything else for decades..
The US government is putting the case forward that the film was not an attempt to express a controversial viewpoint as much as something meant entirely to inflame and incense a volatile situation.
He hasn't been charged with any offences due to the nature of the film. Only his violations of parole. The government hasn't had the film taken down. So you appear to be just making stuff up completely.
And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following.
Problem is slashdot often ONLY gives the "via" site and not the original at all. And often the "via" site is just some blog that copied and pasted parts of an article from, say a NASA press release, possibly adding a stupid sensationalist headline to bring hits on the ads.
If another site actually creates content worth citing then it should be cited. And that isn't very often. But in this case I see the article actually does give some useful context. Still Linus's actual post should have been the first link in the Slashdot article.
who's F**king Moronic idea was it, that this is even/. newsworthy?
In the run up to the US election, any excuse to publish political story will be taken.
It guarantees hundreds of posts ignoring the supposed topic, just rehashing the usual political talking points.
I don't know what you mean. When the earth as seen from the moon is fully dark, the nearside of the moon is obviously fully illuminated
Yes, I didn't think it through.
The earth is stationary in the moon's sky, and its phase would take a month to change, and be full at lunar midnight. But you'd see the continents spinning around once an earth day, I confused that with the phase.
Sorry about the "idiot" stuff, but your use of "dark side" was pretty confusing; it might have been correct literally, but the (real) idiots have made that term synonymous with farside.
Surely you mean: shred -z/dev/sda dd is not secure enough; residual magnetism could be used to retrieve the drive's previous contents
No one has EVER demonstrated they could recover a single file from a disk that has simply been zeroed once.
There was a theoretical paper on this over 10 years ago They never actually did it, and they said in a postscript that it was probably impossible with current disks.
Rep. Michael Grimm's Office Break-In Not Quite Watergate; Just an 8th Grader Who Broke a Window By James King Tue., Sep. 25 2012 at 3:39 PM
Congressman Michael Grimm's Staten Island campaign office was "broken into" over the weekend in what the congressman initially suspected to be a Watergate-esque scandal presumably perpetrated by the cronies of his opponent in this year's election.
Not quite -- it was just an eighth-grader who broke a window.
The NYPD says today that an eighth-grader at a Staten Island junior high school told a school counselor that he and a friend broke the window. The boy, who has not been identified, has been charged with criminal mischief.
Grimm initially claimed thieves broke in using old keys and then smashed windows to make it appear like it was a just a case of random vandalism -- which it was. He suspected that the burglars installed software on the hard drives of computers in the office designed to delete files.
Nope -- a "police source" tells the New York Daily News that it "appears that a campaign staffer wiped the hard drives accidentally after mistakenly inserting a Linux system disc into a Windows machine."
They have hats for people like Grimm -- they're made of tinfoil. ====================
So, no one "broke in" and it was a staffer who accidentally (?) installed Luinux.
That would be called the Night side. Really people. We have proper names for these phenomena. Let's start using them.
I thought he was just an idiot. But I think he was referring to the farside at night.
During those 2 weeks it indeed would be extremely dark, without any earthlight. But the nearside at night would also be pretty dark when the earth above it was full dark, once every 24 hours for an hour or so.
If it's been known for centuries, wouldn't you think that the hard to read type faces would have long since been scrapped?
They're not "hard to read". Just not so easy, and often, as in a headline or a label, slowing you down to pay attention is what they want. Styles that truly are hard to read, like Fraktur, are seen only in faux medieval text, like on wedding invitations.
If you're poor and you move then unless you plan on bringing your bulbs with you, risking shattering them in the move, you're out the $23 each.
If you can move a box of wineglasses, you can move a box of lightbulbs.
You don't have to be "poor" to spend 5 minutes to wrap up your $23 lightbulbs in newspaper and stuff them in a box. That's what I did last time I moved.
I'm all pro-internet and stuff, obviously, but before a government gets fiber to everyone in a country, maybe they should get everyone an emergency kit,...
Yeah, because governments can only do one thing at a time. They only have one department that can either provide health care or internet, but not both.
The reason NBN is a priority is that it is expected to boost economic productivity. If it works out, it will help finance all the other things on your list. Worst case, it will boost the technology sector and give some people jobs laying fibre at least. the investment is relatively small compared to universal health care, defence, education, roads...
Well, the downside is they'll censor everything he likes about the internet. That's the major problem with the Aussie government, they don't feel like people should have rights.
There are certainly people who have proposed to do that, as others have in the US and every other country, but so far it isn't in practice. If Woz really does become an Oz, then I'm sure he would be an activist on preventing this.
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basically this kid crossed the line from harmless internet troll, to potential killer
Everybody is a "potential" killer. The kid never showed any sign of committing real violence. He crossed a line, several lines, but was nowhere near the "murder" line.
Yeah, he was obnoxious and threatening online. He sent the guy a box of ashes. That was still purely symbolic "violence".
Also, it's not "dradis". It's DRADIS. http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/DRADIS
Right. Because they speak English on Caprica and use English spelling and rules of grammar. That wiki is just how some fans rationalise things. Anyway, an acronym you speak as a single word rather than spell out (D_R_A_D_I_S) is usually written lower case -- radar, laser, etc.
Here you go, doing exactly what I was being critical of. Making stuff up. There's NO sign in that show that it is instantaneous.
Oh, really? And yet...
It's visible. Immediately. No light-speed delay.
So, aside from you immediately refuting yourself, I can recall them showing ships across a solar system, light hours away.There's never more than a few seconds delay. And that more for the sweeping of whatever it is that they beam out in analogy to microwaves. It was called dradis for a reason, so they could make it do whatever they wanted dramatically. If they had wanted to limit it to real world EM and lightspeed, they would have done that. They had plenty enough antique technology.
ell name a SINGLE Internet word we old greybeards came up with that hasn't been butchered all to hell by folks that don't get it had a specific meaning
Well, "net" lingo usually borrows and perverts vocabulary from other realms. "Troll" is a bit of wordplay on the net fishing method and the mythical monster. "Geek" used to be a guy who bit the head of chickens in a circus sideshow. You can't complain too much when the words receive wider usage and change their meanings again.
Google "buy guns cheap" and have your credit card ready.
if he's in need of help or cornholed by a huge black guy named Thunderdick. But something needs to be done, or we'll all be reading about this asshat's killing spree with our Post Toasties.
Since he's in Ireland and not California, none of your scenarios are likely.
We keep getting stories here about how foolish it is to demonise video games, because there's a difference between virtual violence and real violence. This guy was a jerk and needs to be taught a lesson, but not punished as if he'd actually physically assaulted someone.
In TFA Leo says how his wife was also targeted.
There are plenty of reasons to prefer a central city environment to the countryside/suburbs. It's much easier to bring peace and quiet to a city apartment than to bring great food, nightlife, jobs and shops to the countryside or suburbs.
He never said why he is living there. He should weigh up the pros and cons. All we know is that he hates the noise. And air quality above a busy intersection will be bad and unhealthy too. You need a really good reason to put up with all that. He said it was his "home office". So he could presumably work anywhere, unless he needed to have clients visit.
Why? If you value peace and quiet and fresh air, move to the countryside and you won't have to insulate yourself from your surroundings. A city of 350,000 can't be that big that you would have a long commute when you needed to get into the city.
In BSG - for instance - every time we see observation of enemy ship positions, the sensors used (DRADIS) appear to be active sensors, not passive. A cylon basestar jumping 3 light minutes away from Galactica wouldn't observe its presence for six minutes. At least in that show, such vast distances weren't particularly useful.
Also it's "dradis". Which isn't explained, but does appear to be effectively instantaneous. When they start a scan they get an image from millions of miles away in seconds. In BSG they have FTL travel, so FTL "radar" isn't out of the question.
Anyway, the incredulity came with the robot Cylon fighters not being able to hit the side of a barn, despite being designed to be killing machines and having faster ships; while the human piloted fighters could take out Cylons pretty easily. And neither side seemed to have guided missiles. It was a lot more gritty than Star Wars, but not really a lot more logical. (Especially at the fucking stupid end, but that's a longer rant for another time.)
It's impossible to find any Google staff for issues about "Google groups" which is what they call their version of Usenet after they embraced and extinguished it. They enabled a tidal wave of spam to destroy all the technical groups that had survived everything else for decades..
The US government is putting the case forward that the film was not an attempt to express a controversial viewpoint as much as something meant entirely to inflame and incense a volatile situation.
He hasn't been charged with any offences due to the nature of the film. Only his violations of parole. The government hasn't had the film taken down. So you appear to be just making stuff up completely.
And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following.
Problem is slashdot often ONLY gives the "via" site and not the original at all. And often the "via" site is just some blog that copied and pasted parts of an article from, say a NASA press release, possibly adding a stupid sensationalist headline to bring hits on the ads.
If another site actually creates content worth citing then it should be cited. And that isn't very often. But in this case I see the article actually does give some useful context. Still Linus's actual post should have been the first link in the Slashdot article.
who's F**king Moronic idea was it, that this is even /. newsworthy?
In the run up to the US election, any excuse to publish political story will be taken. It guarantees hundreds of posts ignoring the supposed topic, just rehashing the usual political talking points.
And why is this dumb story sourced to "networkworld.com"? These assholes are just playing the same game, getting pagehits. Link to what Linus actually wrote: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/2Z4pgYDFeEm?hl=en
Linus is allowed to have personal opinions. He's not putting "Fuck Romney" in the Linux kernel, just writing a personal blog.
I don't know what you mean. When the earth as seen from the moon is fully dark, the nearside of the moon is obviously fully illuminated
Yes, I didn't think it through.
The earth is stationary in the moon's sky, and its phase would take a month to change, and be full at lunar midnight. But you'd see the continents spinning around once an earth day, I confused that with the phase.
Sorry about the "idiot" stuff, but your use of "dark side" was pretty confusing; it might have been correct literally, but the (real) idiots have made that term synonymous with farside.
Surely you mean: shred -z /dev/sda dd is not secure enough; residual magnetism could be used to retrieve the drive's previous contents
No one has EVER demonstrated they could recover a single file from a disk that has simply been zeroed once.
There was a theoretical paper on this over 10 years ago They never actually did it, and they said in a postscript that it was probably impossible with current disks.
Here's the real story:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/rep_michael_gri_1.php
Rep. Michael Grimm's Office Break-In Not Quite Watergate; Just an 8th Grader Who Broke a Window
By James King Tue., Sep. 25 2012 at 3:39 PM
Congressman Michael Grimm's Staten Island campaign office was "broken into" over the weekend in what the congressman initially suspected to be a Watergate-esque scandal presumably perpetrated by the cronies of his opponent in this year's election.
Not quite -- it was just an eighth-grader who broke a window.
The NYPD says today that an eighth-grader at a Staten Island junior high school told a school counselor that he and a friend broke the window. The boy, who has not been identified, has been charged with criminal mischief.
Grimm initially claimed thieves broke in using old keys and then smashed windows to make it appear like it was a just a case of random vandalism -- which it was. He suspected that the burglars installed software on the hard drives of computers in the office designed to delete files.
Nope -- a "police source" tells the New York Daily News that it "appears that a campaign staffer wiped the hard drives accidentally after mistakenly inserting a Linux system disc into a Windows machine."
They have hats for people like Grimm -- they're made of tinfoil.
====================
So, no one "broke in" and it was a staffer who accidentally (?) installed Luinux.
Another linkbait bullshit slashdot "story".
That would be called the Night side. Really people. We have proper names for these phenomena. Let's start using them.
I thought he was just an idiot. But I think he was referring to the farside at night. During those 2 weeks it indeed would be extremely dark, without any earthlight. But the nearside at night would also be pretty dark when the earth above it was full dark, once every 24 hours for an hour or so.
If it's been known for centuries, wouldn't you think that the hard to read type faces would have long since been scrapped?
They're not "hard to read". Just not so easy, and often, as in a headline or a label, slowing you down to pay attention is what they want. Styles that truly are hard to read, like Fraktur, are seen only in faux medieval text, like on wedding invitations.
Poor Wineglasses MFW
Do poor people have to drink out of paper cups? Or just drink beer?
Or do you have a point at all?
I want a free market. Obamanomics != free market.
I'll be glad when the election is over and every thread isn't filled with moronic irrelevant political crap.
If you're poor and you move then unless you plan on bringing your bulbs with you, risking shattering them in the move, you're out the $23 each.
If you can move a box of wineglasses, you can move a box of lightbulbs.
You don't have to be "poor" to spend 5 minutes to wrap up your $23 lightbulbs in newspaper and stuff them in a box. That's what I did last time I moved.
they haven't solved all the other problems
They never will. So we shouldn't try to solve any problems at all. Just give up because perfection is impossible.
I'm all pro-internet and stuff, obviously, but before a government gets fiber to everyone in a country, maybe they should get everyone an emergency kit, ...
Yeah, because governments can only do one thing at a time. They only have one department that can either provide health care or internet, but not both.
The reason NBN is a priority is that it is expected to boost economic productivity. If it works out, it will help finance all the other things on your list. Worst case, it will boost the technology sector and give some people jobs laying fibre at least. the investment is relatively small compared to universal health care, defence, education, roads ...
Well, the downside is they'll censor everything he likes about the internet. That's the major problem with the Aussie government, they don't feel like people should have rights.
There are certainly people who have proposed to do that, as others have in the US and every other country, but so far it isn't in practice. If Woz really does become an Oz, then I'm sure he would be an activist on preventing this.
For most of the country an intro to Office 2010 is all they need to know about computers. College should prepare them for future employment.
Really? That's what college is for?
My 15 year old daughter can already use MS Office. So she can just skip college and get straight to work next year. That'll save me a mint. Thanks.