If I remember correctly, someone once said that religion is the opiate of the masses
I must clarify that I am not an atheist - I do believe that there is a ***Creator*** - I see the religions that are being practiced by the billions on this earth contribute nothing to human civilization
Of course, those who believe will tell you that their religion is the "true one", that their version of "true religion" is "peaceful"
Ultimately, religion is a sales / marketing campaign, on a global scale, and many millions depend on "GOD" for the bread that they bring home to feed their kids - that the better they sell "GOD" the more income they gonna get
That is why I am not surprised at all at the anger of those Hindu priests --- Their anger is not towards that guy who expose the "miracle", but rather, they know full well that their income gonna drastically drop after the expose
As a geek myself, there are times I can't help but feel disgusted at the way they treat my fellow geeks
Who were the ones doing all the new inventions?
The Geeks
Who were the ones reaping the benefits of the new inventions?
The Investors
On the other hand, whenever things go wrong, who do they blame?
The investors?
Don't be silly, nobody will blame those poor investors who have lost their life-savings
They will of course blame the GEEKS for the failings
Like in this Iranian case
Who invented the nuclear thingy? Geeks
Who use this nuclear thing to blackmail the world? The Politicians
Who invented the Stuxnet virus?
The Geeks
But who order the Geeks to invent the Stuxnet virus?
The Politicians
Now, about those "Nuclear Spies" the Iranians rounded up - and we can assume very brutal torture, killing, etc included - because of the Stuxnet virus?
The Politicians? No, nobody would touch the politicians
They rounded up and torture the Geeks
It's the Geeks who are being blamed for everything and anything when things gone south, but yet, never get to reap any benefit when things go north, way up north !
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... are the same one who never experience any "Magical Moment" in their lives
I'll only say this --- I feel sad for them
I always suspect I'd be learning something new whenever I visit /.
Thank you for proving it
How many years already the Voyager spacecraft kept sending us valuable data?
And it does all that without any of the super-gigaherz chips nor gigabytes of RAM nor terabits/s connection devices
On the other hand, do you think your iPad will last 5 years?
Before long, Spain will have its Gigabyte Tax
Italy will chime in with its own Megabyte Tax
And Greece? They'll have the honor of having the world's first Kilobyte Tax
I guess that leaves the byte tax for Ireland.
It's more like "Tax Bites" for the Irish :)
Before long, Spain will have its Gigabyte Tax
Italy will chime in with its own Megabyte Tax
And Greece? They'll have the honor of having the world's first Kilobyte Tax
I can't find this news on any indian news site (timesofindia, rediff, ibnlive). Where does this blog writer get his news from?
The "timesofindia, rediff, ibnlive" are all MSM (Main Stream Media) of India
Like MSM in many other countries, do you seriously think MSM in India dare to cover issues that might degenerate into racial/religious wars?
If I remember correctly, someone once said that religion is the opiate of the masses
I must clarify that I am not an atheist - I do believe that there is a ***Creator*** - I see the religions that are being practiced by the billions on this earth contribute nothing to human civilization
Of course, those who believe will tell you that their religion is the "true one", that their version of "true religion" is "peaceful"
Ultimately, religion is a sales / marketing campaign, on a global scale, and many millions depend on "GOD" for the bread that they bring home to feed their kids - that the better they sell "GOD" the more income they gonna get
That is why I am not surprised at all at the anger of those Hindu priests --- Their anger is not towards that guy who expose the "miracle", but rather, they know full well that their income gonna drastically drop after the expose
As a geek myself, there are times I can't help but feel disgusted at the way they treat my fellow geeks
Who were the ones doing all the new inventions?
The Geeks
Who were the ones reaping the benefits of the new inventions?
The Investors
On the other hand, whenever things go wrong, who do they blame?
The investors?
Don't be silly, nobody will blame those poor investors who have lost their life-savings
They will of course blame the GEEKS for the failings
Like in this Iranian case
Who invented the nuclear thingy? Geeks
Who use this nuclear thing to blackmail the world? The Politicians
Who invented the Stuxnet virus?
The Geeks
But who order the Geeks to invent the Stuxnet virus?
The Politicians
Now, about those "Nuclear Spies" the Iranians rounded up - and we can assume very brutal torture, killing, etc included - because of the Stuxnet virus?
The Politicians? No, nobody would touch the politicians
They rounded up and torture the Geeks
It's the Geeks who are being blamed for everything and anything when things gone south, but yet, never get to reap any benefit when things go north, way up north !
The Judge ruled that: Motorola shall not enforce an injunction in Germany.
The Judge did not
Question:
When was the last time a private entity given the right to enforce a legal injunction?
It's a fact that Germany will never be Germany without the United States of America
Without the United States of America, Germany will be known as "Deutschland"
You certainly don't want that, do you?
Question:
Do you see cops sitting in the neighborhood donut shops or do you see fire fighters sitting there?
Many other distros also carry wicd
Are other distros also affected?
Why only the women are getting the benefits?
What about the men?
Etsy doesn't care about their male customer any longer, does it?
The geeks innovate
The lawyers? Rent seeking
No, because it's fast
Besides, I figure there's no harm to utilize my knowledge in C to make my site super efficient
I've lost count of how many years I've been waiting for the Spoofarino utility
And I'm not alone, other people also been talking about that utility
http://www.spywarepoint.com/gibsons-spoofarino-utility-t54570.html
Could you post a link to your program's source code? Or, if you don't want to, could you give us some pseudocode?
Yeah, I'd second that
It says the universe is precisely 13.75 billion years old, not 13.5 billion years old.
... the universe is actually 13.74892103652974083 billion years old, and counting ...
It was a lot cheaper to pay a third party proxy ...
How do you determine if the third party proxy has sufficient bandwidth to handle the DDoS + regular traffic?
Instead of nginx, I'd use g-wan
It's very efficient, even more than nginx
Intel has the right to dream big
But that dream won't happen in China
China will go for the ARM/Android route instead of the Atom/Win8 route offer by Intel
I still remember how proud I was when I bought my first 300 baud modem
That thing did cost me an arm and a leg - and boy - I thought 300 baud was fast !!
Then they upped the speed, and I had to chop off another arm and another leg to get a "new" modem
Then they upped the speed again --- guess what, I chopped off yet-another-arm and yet-another-leg to pay for that too !!
Throughout all these years, I have lost count of how many arms and legs I'd to trade in for those modems
You put your pics online
Our electronics are the product of exploitation, abuse and the systematic avoidance of regulatory scrutiny, and it is high time for that to end
1. You seems to imply that the systematic avoidance of regulatory scrutiny only happen in countries such as China or Thailand or Indonesia
Tell you a fucking truth --- same thing also happen in the U. S. of A.
2. How prepared are you in paying an arm and a leg for s simple hard disk drive? Or a thumb drive? Or an LCD TV? Or your smartphone?
Once bitten, twice shy
Does the M$ package comes with proprietary IP?