Judging from the animation style, it looks like they're trying to do to Star Trek, what Loonatics Unleashed "re-imagining" was to the Warner Brothers cartoons.
It's crap, Alex, but not as we know it,
Not as we know it,
Not as we know it,
It's crap, Alex, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.
> Employees who work from home or in remote branch offices often feel disconnected from corporate life and worry they will be forgotten and bypassed for promotions.
Don't worry. So do the people who work at the head office.
> Not if you want to do it carry on, at least at San Francisco. They didn't allow any liquids on the plane even if you had purchased it after the security check [...] > >Not suprisingly, the duty-free shop was almost completely without customers.
And because of the lack of customers, the airport liquor shops can't hire the lobbyists who'd be required to buy the appropriate legislative fix.
You'd think that it being the San Francisco airport, though, the wine lobby would be strong enough. I guess the wine lobby can only curry favor with California politicians, and with TSA being a federal responsibility, and with California's electoral votes solidly in the "D" column with or without representation, there's no point in either the Dems or Pubs spending political capital on something that would principally benefit CA wineries.
Now that that's cleared up, can I finally bring my oh-so-dangerous fifth of vodka in the same carry-on I use to hold my laptop so I can drink myself back into unconsciousness when the oh-so-harmless lithium batteries run out?
> On the other hand, the few photojournalists I know can usually take vastly better pictures of a newsworthy event with a disposable camera than I can with a phone/camera of any kind. Maybe talent will save the industry instead.
And on the gripping hand, the few Farkers and Something Awful goons I've seen can usually do vastly better Photoshopping of newsworthy events with a pirated copy of Photoshop 5.0 than any Reuters photojournalist can do, even with a DSLR that costs more than a small country and a volume site license of Photoshop CS2 with free upgrades to CS3.
> [Sen. Clinton] can't do it on abortion issues, or gay marriage without angering her Democratic base, so she's picked an issue that's fairly neutral but has that nice "family values" feel to it. And it's video games, so it's not like she's giving up an important issue or anything.
Sidle up to the right. Yep, it's all just a pose.
You're forgetting the PMRC. Back in the 80s, you see, politicians hadn't heard much about video games, but they sure knew about rock music. The PMRC was founded by a lady named Tipper Gore, and is why the uncensored versions of CDs have those little "Explicit Lyrics" stickers on them - so you know which ones to buy. You might have heard of Tipper's husband. I hear he almost got the Presidency in 2000. Gosh, the Democratic party has such a rich heritage of defending freedoms:)
> PS. I'm one of those pinko-Canadians, so for me American politics is mostly a grand spectator sport. Flame on!
Ah, that explains it. In Canuckistan, you actually have different political parties that have different platforms. We don't do that down here. We have one Party, and it's the Government Party. The Elephant wing of the Government Party censors your video games because they're afraid you might see boobs, and the Jackass wing of the Government Party censors your video games because they're afraid you might see explosions.
The Party in shares its work between its two wings on most other issues, too. Elephants want to put a webcam in your home to make sure you're not a smoking pot, and to save you from the terrorists, and Jackasses want to put webcams in your home to make sure you're not smoking tobacco and to save you from junk food.
> Okay... How can this be used > >For Hiring? >
Is it publicly available or is it only available to the government?
It's a government database, much like the databases that hold criminal records, etc. Access to it is sold to data brokers such as Choicepoint.
When Company X wants to hire you, they ask Choicepoint if you're "a good risk".
Choicepoint crunches the numbers by means of a proprietary formula, one of the ingredients of which your credit rating (for sale by other data brokers), another of which is your criminal record and/or arrest history (for sale by other arms of the government), and another of which is now your Terrorist Score.
Neither you (nor Company X!) ever finds out what your Terrorist Score is. Company X takes a look at Choicepoint's evaluation and combines it, with your resume, and how well you did on the job interview, and whatever else it wants... and decides whether or not to hire you.
So if your Terrorist Score is too high, you might not get the job, because Choicepoint or the other background-checking firms have decided that it's important enough to make you a risk... or maybe not. You'll never know. That's both a feature (everyone has plausible deniability, so nobody can get sued), and a bug (you may be denied a job because of a bogus data point in your Terrorist Score, just as you can be denied a job due to bogus data on your credit history -- but you can at least fix the errors in your credit history.)
Now that that's out of the way, can we stop calling it a Terrorist Score? If I keep using that term, your score goes up. Probably the only way to fix a bad Terrorist Score is to start calling it a Freedom Score. At the rate I'm going, I'm gonna have to donate at least $1000 to both the RNC and the DNC before I can get hired again, let alone fly anywhere.
> But as graduates complain about a lack of jobs, companies across India see a lack of skilled applicants. The contradiction is explained, experts say, by the poor quality of undergraduate education. India's thousands of colleges are swallowing millions of new students every year, only to turn out degree holders whom no one wants to hire.
Well, Indian companies, if your universities are turning out graduates of sub-par, and you're no longer pleased to being able to bringing products to markets in a timely manner, please to be introducing you a land where you can be outsourcing your business products and services. This land is being called America! And you can be outsourcing your technical business to it!
(We are apologizing for the quality of the technical support and code we send back. We are knowing that "Howdy Y'all! My name is Jethro! How can ah help y'all with yer blinkinlights?" and "Segmentation pwnage, core dumped, dude" isn't quite what you're used to receiving, but remember... you do get what you pay for.)
"The need for 100G Ethernet is growing as IP video and transaction-intensive Web 2.0 applications are exploding across the Internet. Companies such as YouTube regularly add 10Gbps service pipes to meet growing demand, and carriers will need a better way to aggregate such links, industry watchers say."
- From TFA.
Which is all well and good, but for honesty, I prefer Bill Watkins' take on it.
"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
Bah. Fingerslip before post that wastes a paragraph = teh suck. No doubt my terror rating just went up for that.
> I spent a good part of my childhood just a few miles away from the lucky side of the Iron Curtain. One of the things that our teachers told us was so bad about East Germany was the fact that they "kept files on their citizens! Normal people, like you and me!"
> >
So what do we tell the kids, today?
We point out that one in three East Germans was helping STASI with citizen surveillance, (no doubt with similar numbers for the USSR and KGB) but that only a few thousand upper Party members were actually part of the actual day-to-day government, and they were vastly outnumbered by the people who were actually doing the spying.
And therefore, we can say with straight face: "in Soviet Russia, the people watched the government."
What we tell our kids is that we're better than they were, because we do things the other way around.
> I spent a good part of my childhood just a few miles away from the lucky side of the Iron Curtain. One of the things that our teachers told us was so bad about East Germany was the fact that they "kept files on their citizens! Normal people, like you and me!"
> >
So what do we tell the kids, today?
We point out that one in three East Germans was helping STASI with citizen surveillance, (no doubt with similar numbers for the USSR and KGB) but only a few thousand upper Party members were actually part of the actual
And that "in Soviet Russia, the people watched the government."
What we tell our kids is that we're better than they were, because we do things the other way around.
From TFA: "What can I do to protect myself as a user?"
> One of the best ways to protect yourself is to turn off Javascript in your browser settings.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Best security practice has always been to turn off ActiveX, Javascript, Flash, and any other means by which untrusted executable content is automatically downloaded to one's machine and then automatically executed.
> > 'It looks to me at about the same level as I have a sensor on my garage door at the lower hinge... and the raccoons are eating it. So I think of the brainstorm of putting it on the upper hinge.' > >
Too late dude, I already patented that.
And to add insult to injury, Raccoon Mario flew up, ate the hinge, and sued both of you for patent infringement.
> "Which reminds me...I have something for you..." >
*unzip* >
Your father wanted you to have THIS when you were old enough...
I think we've solved a mystery here.
In the original, as we all know, Han shoots first, and all Leia has to say to Han (5 minutes after kissing her brother "for luck") is "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
A couple of re-imaginings later, when Han doesn't shoot first, and Leia's all ga-ga over him, and won't have anything to do with her brother.
I'm not sure what Greedo had going on, but George Lucas is one sick fuck.
Uplink is to cracking, what GTA is to car theft. Enough escapism to be fun, enough realism to make you very nervous when you're in the middle of a mission. The game came out in 2001, and was set in 2010. Judging from the headlines on Slashdot, we're about halfway there.
> > Seriously though, yes, more choices are always better. > >O RLY? How would you like to die today? We have a lovely selection of slow, painful ways to die. Nobody has a wider selection!
> Help me out: using 75% of a 10Gb/s link "rocks"? If I read that right, usage was 7.5Gb of 10Gb total. What exactly was the Feat?
Daring to brave the power of this fully operational Slashdotting station.
(Then again, I got a 14-megabyte.MPG of the movie in less time than it took to post this. We'll see if they're still alive by the time this hits the board, though.)
Slashdot Mirror
It's crap, Alex, but not as we know it,
Not as we know it,
Not as we know it,
It's crap, Alex, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.
It's worse than that, it's dead, Alex!
Dead, Alex!
Dead, Alex!
It's worse than that, it's dead, Alex! Dead, Alex, dead!
Don't worry. So do the people who work at the head office.
>
>Not suprisingly, the duty-free shop was almost completely without customers.
And because of the lack of customers, the airport liquor shops can't hire the lobbyists who'd be required to buy the appropriate legislative fix.
You'd think that it being the San Francisco airport, though, the wine lobby would be strong enough. I guess the wine lobby can only curry favor with California politicians, and with TSA being a federal responsibility, and with California's electoral votes solidly in the "D" column with or without representation, there's no point in either the Dems or Pubs spending political capital on something that would principally benefit CA wineries.
Checkmate. I need another drink.
Now that that's cleared up, can I finally bring my oh-so-dangerous fifth of vodka in the same carry-on I use to hold my laptop so I can drink myself back into unconsciousness when the oh-so-harmless lithium batteries run out?
>
>Yes and/or no.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to collapse this wave function that describes your cat.
...they do something!
"The needs of the shareholders outweigh the nerds with a clue, or the fun."
And on the gripping hand, the few Farkers and Something Awful goons I've seen can usually do vastly better Photoshopping of newsworthy events with a pirated copy of Photoshop 5.0 than any Reuters photojournalist can do, even with a DSLR that costs more than a small country and a volume site license of Photoshop CS2 with free upgrades to CS3.
Sidle up to the right. Yep, it's all just a pose.
You're forgetting the PMRC. Back in the 80s, you see, politicians hadn't heard much about video games, but they sure knew about rock music. The PMRC was founded by a lady named Tipper Gore, and is why the uncensored versions of CDs have those little "Explicit Lyrics" stickers on them - so you know which ones to buy. You might have heard of Tipper's husband. I hear he almost got the Presidency in 2000. Gosh, the Democratic party has such a rich heritage of defending freedoms :)
> PS. I'm one of those pinko-Canadians, so for me American politics is mostly a grand spectator sport. Flame on!
Ah, that explains it. In Canuckistan, you actually have different political parties that have different platforms. We don't do that down here. We have one Party, and it's the Government Party. The Elephant wing of the Government Party censors your video games because they're afraid you might see boobs, and the Jackass wing of the Government Party censors your video games because they're afraid you might see explosions.
The Party in shares its work between its two wings on most other issues, too. Elephants want to put a webcam in your home to make sure you're not a smoking pot, and to save you from the terrorists, and Jackasses want to put webcams in your home to make sure you're not smoking tobacco and to save you from junk food.
>
>For Hiring?
> Is it publicly available or is it only available to the government?
It's a government database, much like the databases that hold criminal records, etc. Access to it is sold to data brokers such as Choicepoint.
When Company X wants to hire you, they ask Choicepoint if you're "a good risk".
Choicepoint crunches the numbers by means of a proprietary formula, one of the ingredients of which your credit rating (for sale by other data brokers), another of which is your criminal record and/or arrest history (for sale by other arms of the government), and another of which is now your Terrorist Score.
Neither you (nor Company X!) ever finds out what your Terrorist Score is. Company X takes a look at Choicepoint's evaluation and combines it, with your resume, and how well you did on the job interview, and whatever else it wants... and decides whether or not to hire you.
So if your Terrorist Score is too high, you might not get the job, because Choicepoint or the other background-checking firms have decided that it's important enough to make you a risk... or maybe not. You'll never know. That's both a feature (everyone has plausible deniability, so nobody can get sued), and a bug (you may be denied a job because of a bogus data point in your Terrorist Score, just as you can be denied a job due to bogus data on your credit history -- but you can at least fix the errors in your credit history.)
Now that that's out of the way, can we stop calling it a Terrorist Score? If I keep using that term, your score goes up. Probably the only way to fix a bad Terrorist Score is to start calling it a Freedom Score. At the rate I'm going, I'm gonna have to donate at least $1000 to both the RNC and the DNC before I can get hired again, let alone fly anywhere.
Well, Indian companies, if your universities are turning out graduates of sub-par, and you're no longer pleased to being able to bringing products to markets in a timely manner, please to be introducing you a land where you can be outsourcing your business products and services. This land is being called America! And you can be outsourcing your technical business to it!
(We are apologizing for the quality of the technical support and code we send back. We are knowing that "Howdy Y'all! My name is Jethro! How can ah help y'all with yer blinkinlights?" and "Segmentation pwnage, core dumped, dude" isn't quite what you're used to receiving, but remember... you do get what you pay for.)
- From TFA.
Which is all well and good, but for honesty, I prefer Bill Watkins' take on it.
"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn."
Bill watkins, CEO of Seagate
Did it look anything like this?
> I spent a good part of my childhood just a few miles away from the lucky side of the Iron Curtain. One of the things that our teachers told us was so bad about East Germany was the fact that they "kept files on their citizens! Normal people, like you and me!"
>
> So what do we tell the kids, today?
We point out that one in three East Germans was helping STASI with citizen surveillance, (no doubt with similar numbers for the USSR and KGB) but that only a few thousand upper Party members were actually part of the actual day-to-day government, and they were vastly outnumbered by the people who were actually doing the spying.
And therefore, we can say with straight face: "in Soviet Russia, the people watched the government."
What we tell our kids is that we're better than they were, because we do things the other way around.
America. What a country.
>
> So what do we tell the kids, today?
We point out that one in three East Germans was helping STASI with citizen surveillance, (no doubt with similar numbers for the USSR and KGB) but only a few thousand upper Party members were actually part of the actual
And that "in Soviet Russia, the people watched the government."
What we tell our kids is that we're better than they were, because we do things the other way around.
America. What a country.
> One of the best ways to protect yourself is to turn off Javascript in your browser settings.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Best security practice has always been to turn off ActiveX, Javascript, Flash, and any other means by which untrusted executable content is automatically downloaded to one's machine and then automatically executed.
>
> Too late dude, I already patented that.
And to add insult to injury, Raccoon Mario flew up, ate the hinge, and sued both of you for patent infringement.
> *unzip*
> Your father wanted you to have THIS when you were old enough...
I think we've solved a mystery here.
In the original, as we all know, Han shoots first, and all Leia has to say to Han (5 minutes after kissing her brother "for luck") is "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
A couple of re-imaginings later, when Han doesn't shoot first, and Leia's all ga-ga over him, and won't have anything to do with her brother.
I'm not sure what Greedo had going on, but George Lucas is one sick fuck.
Been there, done that.
Uplink is to cracking, what GTA is to car theft. Enough escapism to be fun, enough realism to make you very nervous when you're in the middle of a mission. The game came out in 2001, and was set in 2010. Judging from the headlines on Slashdot, we're about halfway there.
If there are no breasts in your Snu-Snu, you're doing it wrong. Even on Amazonia, there's at least one breast to work with :)
>
>O RLY? How would you like to die today? We have a lovely selection of slow, painful ways to die. Nobody has a wider selection!
Slashdot Poll
How would you like to die today?
. Drowning
. Burnination
. Decapitation
. Breasts!
* Snu-Snu
. Snu-Snu with CowboyNeal
Daring to brave the power of this fully operational Slashdotting station.
(Then again, I got a 14-megabyte .MPG of the movie in less time than it took to post this. We'll see if they're still alive by the time this hits the board, though.)
They say that Pluto's
Not quite a planet.
These KBOs
Are goofy, dammit.
Burma Shave.
Cue the strange jokes. I'm charmed. You're Bohred. And the cat is both.