To clarify: I knew what it meant. I was just snarking, because the whole reason for the name "Anonymous" is because they would like to claim to *be* anonymous, and this guy clearly totally failed at it.
I'm not saying Obama was perfect - he wasn't, and I knew that going in, he was just the best option we had at the time - but I will also say, it's pretty hard to get much "change" accomplished when the majority of the legislative branch is like, "we will veto literally ANYTHING you try to do, no matter what, just because we hate you personally and want to see you fail". It's impressive that he got *anything* accomplished given that backdrop, and that is totally a problem we'll still face even with someone as super cool as Bernie in the oval. (Maybe even more so - his proposed changes would probably be even more anathema to conservatives than a more moderate like Obama.)
In fact, I would say, given your statement (which I mostly agree with), once we have the technology in a stable, affordable state, *not* using it to get rid of any horrible birth defects or other serious congenital health issues that it can be used to prevent, would be considered "wrong". I don't think we should go about messing with the genome *too* much - we don't want to end up like the modern banana, losing a lot of genetic variation in search of the single "perfect" specimen - but getting rid of obvious terrible issues that will give children pretty much worthless lives and/or kill them, I can't see *any* reason not to completely get rid of those if possible.
I agree with your first point. $5 is laughably tiny. Bullies at elementary schools routinely steal more than $5 from other elementary schoolers.
I don't agree with your second point: a "bomb threat" is when someone calls in claiming to have planted a bomb... whether or not they did, in fact, actually plant a bomb; they may well have. A "fake bomb threat" is a bomb threat in which they explicitly didn't actually plant the bomb but claim they did. How is that not clear?
If I wanted to troll them, I could just send off anonymous emails stating a random, say, 20% of their attendees made "me" feel "uncomfortable", and they would without question kick out 20% of their attendees? I'm sure that'd generate some amazing press and get people to ever go to another one of their events. Let's do it!
If by ~30, you mean more like 10, then yes. You can get fancy ones for 30 or more, but you can get a simple one that's just a power stick you can plug things into for crazy cheap. I never go anywhere without one or two of them charged and stuck in a bag, just in case.
Uh... zero. It will totally get you banned for trying, and would be pointless anyway, as their torrents have to authenticate you as a user of the site before they'll let you start downloading (I don't know how that works, but I know it does). But they'd still totally ban you for uploading their torrents to public sites even regardless, as it would be a clear indication that you didn't read the rules clearly, which say don't do that.:p
Ok... how exactly are you supposing that THEY are going to find someone to invite them in? They can find the site, but they're not going to be able to see who's seeding what unless someone was dumb enough to send them one of their invites, so I repeat: who would be dumb enough to do that? (Clearly nobody, as that's never happened.)
I disagree with your last sentence: there are plenty of private torrent sites that are exactly as you describe: low profile and under the radar. I don't even know anything about the vast majority of them, just that there are a good number of them, and I'm lucky enough to have gotten into one years back, that I use all the time. The nice thing about it is, being private, you're not in much danger of getting caught (and, being small, nobody's even going to try to sneak in or break them down - they're going to go after higher-visibility targets like demonoid.) Thanks for all the tv, !
Uh... the fact that sometimes people like posting things in languages other than English, or even just using borrowed words from languages other than English, some of which thus have non-English characters in them?
Because I think it would be fitting if everyone were to forward him big packages containing all the unsolicited mail they've received recently. After all, that's "content" too, right, so if you don't want to receive it, you're "subverting freedom of the press" that allows anyone to send advertisements unsolicited to whoever they want and regardless of how annoyed they might get, right?
I've always done that - if I copy any code from somewhere else, I add a comment saying where I got it from. Not because I feel like I need to legally, more because it's *helpful* - it's helpful if you come back a year later, and you're like, I don't remember writing this code? Oh, right, I didn't, I got it from somewhere else. It's also extra-helpful if the reason for the revisit later is because you think there might be a bug - first thing to do is go check the original source, see if the bug was already fixed. And of course, it is also polite to give proper credit, even if nobody is going to see the source other than your coworkers.
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Nah, we should build a wall, but clearly it's going to be paid for mainly with funds from the Chinese mafia. (Things to make sure: 1. it's not actually in Mexico; 2. it's not a tower a mile up into the air with bushes hanging mid-air; 3. don't build it while high on maca.)
"Always" is a powerful word. "Often", perhaps, but I'm over 30, work at a software company, have worked there since I graduated with an undergrad cs degree, have no interest in becoming an executive, and got a pretty nice raise last year, and another one this year. And my boss, who is at least as talented a developer as I am, is female, and is married with a a kid, so presumably sex is being had (with other people) by at least one other member of my team (I obviously don't ask about my coworkers' sex lives, but having a kid is pretty good proof.) Absolutes are absolute.:p
p.s. my job also doesn't ever require math beyond basic algebra, which is actually kinda sad, I took so much math in college and never use it.
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How about making their core product suck less instead of more, so it stops declining in market share? (I say this as someone who is still using FF as my primary browser, as I personally think it sucks the least of the available options... but for the past couple years, every version closes that gap just a little bit more...)
I disagree completely. Not that companies aren't all over pushing technologies that nobody actually cares about (3d tvs, anyone?), but self-driving cars are absolutely not in that category. I'm looking forward to them, my wife is looking forward to them, tons of people at work are looking forward to them.
I do think those crazy futurists predicting that learning to driving will be totally obsolete in our lifetime are either being wildly optimistic, or more likely, are making hyperbolic predictions in the interest of garnering more clicks... but I absolutely predict self-driving cars will be popular, and will be fairly *common* in our lifetimes, just not ubiquitous. Less like cars replacing horses... more like automatic replacing manual transmission. Plenty of people know how to drive stick still, decades later (I'm not one of them)- but that number keeps going down. Some people know how because they had to, or because they figured it'd be good in case of emergency, while some people actively prefer driving that way, but the skill is unlikely to *completely* disappear as long as there are cars left on the road to drive, which there most likely always will be.
That said, ew, Ford, really? Ford? Ugh. I'd been long-predicting a Google-Tesla partnership, which would be super cool. Ford?
> "consumers have come to expect their car to mimic smartphone functionality."
I have never heard *anyone* say this, ever. Integration with smartphones: yes. *Replacing* a smartphone: nope, not at all, ever, no thanks. Am I just behind the times, or is this more like how consumers have supposedly come to expect 3D and/or ultra-4k tvs that nobody actually needs or wants?
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Since about 4 million years ago, clearly.
To clarify: I knew what it meant. I was just snarking, because the whole reason for the name "Anonymous" is because they would like to claim to *be* anonymous, and this guy clearly totally failed at it.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Clearly not very anonymous, if they knew exactly who he was and what he was doing, to arrest him...
I'm not saying Obama was perfect - he wasn't, and I knew that going in, he was just the best option we had at the time - but I will also say, it's pretty hard to get much "change" accomplished when the majority of the legislative branch is like, "we will veto literally ANYTHING you try to do, no matter what, just because we hate you personally and want to see you fail". It's impressive that he got *anything* accomplished given that backdrop, and that is totally a problem we'll still face even with someone as super cool as Bernie in the oval. (Maybe even more so - his proposed changes would probably be even more anathema to conservatives than a more moderate like Obama.)
In fact, I would say, given your statement (which I mostly agree with), once we have the technology in a stable, affordable state, *not* using it to get rid of any horrible birth defects or other serious congenital health issues that it can be used to prevent, would be considered "wrong". I don't think we should go about messing with the genome *too* much - we don't want to end up like the modern banana, losing a lot of genetic variation in search of the single "perfect" specimen - but getting rid of obvious terrible issues that will give children pretty much worthless lives and/or kill them, I can't see *any* reason not to completely get rid of those if possible.
I agree with your first point. $5 is laughably tiny. Bullies at elementary schools routinely steal more than $5 from other elementary schoolers.
I don't agree with your second point: a "bomb threat" is when someone calls in claiming to have planted a bomb... whether or not they did, in fact, actually plant a bomb; they may well have. A "fake bomb threat" is a bomb threat in which they explicitly didn't actually plant the bomb but claim they did. How is that not clear?
If I wanted to troll them, I could just send off anonymous emails stating a random, say, 20% of their attendees made "me" feel "uncomfortable", and they would without question kick out 20% of their attendees? I'm sure that'd generate some amazing press and get people to ever go to another one of their events. Let's do it!
If by ~30, you mean more like 10, then yes. You can get fancy ones for 30 or more, but you can get a simple one that's just a power stick you can plug things into for crazy cheap. I never go anywhere without one or two of them charged and stuck in a bag, just in case.
Screw you, Indonesia, and have fun banning every emoticon...
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p.s. screw you too, slashdot, for still totally failing at supporting basic non-US characters. That is a *remarkably* flat butt.
Uh... zero. It will totally get you banned for trying, and would be pointless anyway, as their torrents have to authenticate you as a user of the site before they'll let you start downloading (I don't know how that works, but I know it does). But they'd still totally ban you for uploading their torrents to public sites even regardless, as it would be a clear indication that you didn't read the rules clearly, which say don't do that. :p
Ok... how exactly are you supposing that THEY are going to find someone to invite them in? They can find the site, but they're not going to be able to see who's seeding what unless someone was dumb enough to send them one of their invites, so I repeat: who would be dumb enough to do that? (Clearly nobody, as that's never happened.)
I disagree with your last sentence: there are plenty of private torrent sites that are exactly as you describe: low profile and under the radar. I don't even know anything about the vast majority of them, just that there are a good number of them, and I'm lucky enough to have gotten into one years back, that I use all the time. The nice thing about it is, being private, you're not in much danger of getting caught (and, being small, nobody's even going to try to sneak in or break them down - they're going to go after higher-visibility targets like demonoid.) Thanks for all the tv, !
Uh... the fact that sometimes people like posting things in languages other than English, or even just using borrowed words from languages other than English, some of which thus have non-English characters in them?
Funny, your post just now was the whiniest, complainiest, least interesting post I've seen on this site in quite some time.
I was probably in my crib or whatever, given I was like a year old. :p
Entirely unrelatedly, the Kinkymidget Ball Stompers would make a great punk band name.
Because I think it would be fitting if everyone were to forward him big packages containing all the unsolicited mail they've received recently. After all, that's "content" too, right, so if you don't want to receive it, you're "subverting freedom of the press" that allows anyone to send advertisements unsolicited to whoever they want and regardless of how annoyed they might get, right?
I've always done that - if I copy any code from somewhere else, I add a comment saying where I got it from. Not because I feel like I need to legally, more because it's *helpful* - it's helpful if you come back a year later, and you're like, I don't remember writing this code? Oh, right, I didn't, I got it from somewhere else. It's also extra-helpful if the reason for the revisit later is because you think there might be a bug - first thing to do is go check the original source, see if the bug was already fixed. And of course, it is also polite to give proper credit, even if nobody is going to see the source other than your coworkers.
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Nah, we should build a wall, but clearly it's going to be paid for mainly with funds from the Chinese mafia. (Things to make sure: 1. it's not actually in Mexico; 2. it's not a tower a mile up into the air with bushes hanging mid-air; 3. don't build it while high on maca.)
"Always" is a powerful word. "Often", perhaps, but I'm over 30, work at a software company, have worked there since I graduated with an undergrad cs degree, have no interest in becoming an executive, and got a pretty nice raise last year, and another one this year. And my boss, who is at least as talented a developer as I am, is female, and is married with a a kid, so presumably sex is being had (with other people) by at least one other member of my team (I obviously don't ask about my coworkers' sex lives, but having a kid is pretty good proof.) Absolutes are absolute. :p
p.s. my job also doesn't ever require math beyond basic algebra, which is actually kinda sad, I took so much math in college and never use it.
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How about making their core product suck less instead of more, so it stops declining in market share? (I say this as someone who is still using FF as my primary browser, as I personally think it sucks the least of the available options... but for the past couple years, every version closes that gap just a little bit more...)
I disagree completely. Not that companies aren't all over pushing technologies that nobody actually cares about (3d tvs, anyone?), but self-driving cars are absolutely not in that category. I'm looking forward to them, my wife is looking forward to them, tons of people at work are looking forward to them.
I do think those crazy futurists predicting that learning to driving will be totally obsolete in our lifetime are either being wildly optimistic, or more likely, are making hyperbolic predictions in the interest of garnering more clicks... but I absolutely predict self-driving cars will be popular, and will be fairly *common* in our lifetimes, just not ubiquitous. Less like cars replacing horses... more like automatic replacing manual transmission. Plenty of people know how to drive stick still, decades later (I'm not one of them)- but that number keeps going down. Some people know how because they had to, or because they figured it'd be good in case of emergency, while some people actively prefer driving that way, but the skill is unlikely to *completely* disappear as long as there are cars left on the road to drive, which there most likely always will be.
That said, ew, Ford, really? Ford? Ugh. I'd been long-predicting a Google-Tesla partnership, which would be super cool. Ford?
> "consumers have come to expect their car to mimic smartphone functionality."
I have never heard *anyone* say this, ever. Integration with smartphones: yes. *Replacing* a smartphone: nope, not at all, ever, no thanks. Am I just behind the times, or is this more like how consumers have supposedly come to expect 3D and/or ultra-4k tvs that nobody actually needs or wants?