About that beacon of truth: 1. Who defines “truth”? The admins? The Icelandic government? You? 2. The US can still bomb the shit out of Iceland in a matter of days. 3.... 4. FAIL.;)
I remember when the United States was something like that.
You mean, you remember when you still believed their lies? Well, there was a time when I believed my government too...;)
Yes, this was a flame. Against the fuckers at Facebook. And I’m fucking proud of it!
Oh, and NO. I do not have anything in my Facebook profile, except contacts to write messages to, because I have no choice. I would not have any account there if I could. Thank my idiot friends. I hope they get viruses and go to jail for a botnet client saving child porn on their systems!
Exactly. If something fails, everything else will fill the space in the blink of an eye. And the new competition will make the new offerings even better! (Especially in case of a [quasi-]monopoly.)
“Too big to fail.” is just another way of saying “Too powerful to let us let it fail.”
Umm, and where will those 100kW come from? Certainly not from any batteries in that jet. Or else it will become so sluggish that it either has to carry huge engines, and become a bomber, or will be shot down by everything that now is quicker.
He said that 1. it’s not cheating that’s the problem. Getting caught is. and that 2. cheating takes a considerable effort. Who says that that isn’t a worthwile strategy? ^^ (After all cheating is a popular strategy amongst lifeforms on earth.)
The best moment was, when a friend of mine dropped one of his five (!) small notes he wanted to use to cheat. (Bear in mind that he was the best student in our whole class level!) The teacher noticed it, picked it up, and told him: “Well, this contains nothing that is useful to cheat on this test. So I can’t punish you.” Then he handed him the note back.:)
As real as whatever I choose to enter. Also, I only joined, to be able to chat with a ton of idiot friends who use Failbook as their IM tool, instead of ICQ/Jabber/etc. And I have NOTHING on the page. I literally have disabled every single feature, left everything empty, and blocked everyone from seeing anything. The only exception: Friends can send me messages.
I will delete the profile, as soon as Failbook allows cross-server IM (like email). Because I have my own Jabber server, and can then chat with them without registering anywhere.
GP simply knows nothing about psychology/neurology. Religion is literally what one could call a simple form of... well... “schizophrenia”. Now this might leave some people insulted. But you have to know, that that is actually a useful tool, to keep us surviving. So if you call it “bad” depends on your point of view. (Like everything in psychology and every mutation.)
You see, humans MUST at all times have a working inner model of the outer world. Or else we are unable to predict any result of any of our actions. Which would leave us unable to follow any goal... to do anything useful. This, to the human brain, is probably the worst possible state, and literally results in the same strong fear as the fear of death. So we avoid it at any cost.
There are many ways to deal with this. Of course the most obvious one, is to try to understand it, trough playing with it, experimenting, acquiring more information about it. But what, if that it literally impossible? Like the question where the universe comes from? Or what if we are mentally unable to make it fit with out known reality? We can’t just leave it there, because we would still know of that conflict, and stop being able to live our life.
So what to do?
Well. First there’s repression. Which basically is, when your brain shuts off one piece of knowledge from the rest of your brain. This often happens, after you experienced something so crass, that the association just spilled over, so that you link it to things it shouldn’t be linked to. Like when someone raped you and had a mustache, and now you get a sad feeling and pain down there, whenever you see someone with a mustache! The problem is, that you will, because of that repression, not be able to remember that actual bad cause. But hate mustaches anyway, not knowing why.
But the worst-case scenario, is when you stop being able to trust the outside world, and don’t find any way to make it work or hide it. Then you end up with schizophrenia. Which is basically (simplified!), that you turn cause and effect on its head. You start to trust your inner model more, that new experiences from the real world. Does that remind you of something? ^^ I must say that religion mostly still is a thousand times better than full scale schizophrenia. Like dangerous UV in sunlight, compared to powerful gamma rays, for your skin.
Now it’s obvious, that this is unrelated to intelligence. But to the ratio of what you know that does not fit, and what you can make fit. So a dumb person is more prone to it, because it is much harder to make it all fit. But can live a happy simple life. Such people just have more needs for make do mechanisms, to survive. But is that bad per se? Evolution would not agree.
And someone like Newton... he likely was pretty intelligent. But my guess is, that he simply knew so much that he could not make sense of. He was able to make sense of some things. But others were just waaayyy out of everything conceivable in his time. So religion was a good way out, to not become crazy over questions he would never have been able to solve.
I, myself, can only solve the “where came the universe from” question, trough repression/ignorance. Some choose to use a “god”. Of course this still leaves the question open, where “god” came from. Fun experiment: If you want to see this protective “Schweinehund” (as we in Germany call it) in full glory, go and try to push a religious person on answering where god came from? ^^ But please don’t bee too cruel, as I could just as well do this to your weak spots.;)
You wish. With MS I have more than once seen an update, that fixed a buggy update, that should have fixed a bug included in a service pack. ^^ I distinctively remember one for MS Office, somewhere before Office XP.
No. Avoiding having a single point of failure is basic common sense that can be expected from everyone who can beat a monkey in an IQ test. Maybe on your tree, that’s what you call an “expert”.;))
LOL. What would be the point in using encryption to connect to a server that is not trustworthy in the first place? Besides: Is you e-mail encrypted?
And it’s far from the worst WTF. The worst WTF is, that in order to use it, you have to give them your phone number!!! Yeah right. What’s next? A body cavity search?
Luckily I don’t have to, so I won’t. Facebook can seriously just fuck right off!
“Censorship is a crime, forbidden by your most fundamental laws. Ladies and gentleman, you are engaging in criminal behavior. Do you wish to continue, and go to jail for it?”
And then when they do continue, launch a huge campaign, causing the government to be overthrown. I am sure Google can do that.
What gave you the idea, that we care what the general public thinks about our area of expertise? Are you so weak, that you bow to a stream of loud idiots saying that 2+2=5?
We define what a virus is. We define what a cracker and a hacker is. Like professionals in any other profession. There is no battle, so we can’t lose. I’m still calling anyone calling a cracker a hacker somebody who got no fuckin’ clue. Including you, if you do so. Period.
Wait for the second Star Wars Holiday Special. With Jar Jar’s gay family, lots of shameless merchandising plugs, and the worst singing in human history.
And THEN wait for 4Chan to turn it into a porn film. Guess what the shamless plugs will represent.;) (Reminds me of that troll with the greased-up Yoda doll, and this. [If you have a weak heart, don’t click!])
If you can call the product of a pumped-full-of-chemicals, non-species-appropriately fed, mentally crazy chicken, still an “egg”.
Have you ever tasted the egg from a chicken that lives and eats, like it’s supposed to? After that, a industrial cooked egg tastes like a piece of nasty jelly, void of any taste. And with the healthiness it’s even worse.
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About that beacon of truth: ... ;)
1. Who defines “truth”? The admins? The Icelandic government? You?
2. The US can still bomb the shit out of Iceland in a matter of days.
3.
4. FAIL.
I remember when the United States was something like that.
You mean, you remember when you still believed their lies? ;)
Well, there was a time when I believed my government too...
Saying patently false things about someone that you know are false *should* be a crime, IMO, even if our interpretation of the law has gone too far.
Well, in Germany, it is a crime. And the judge decides how to interpret law.
Is that that different from US/UK rules?
+1 Flamebait. Exactly what I meant it to be. :)
Yes, this was a flame. Against the fuckers at Facebook. And I’m fucking proud of it!
Oh, and NO. I do not have anything in my Facebook profile, except contacts to write messages to, because I have no choice. I would not have any account there if I could. Thank my idiot friends. I hope they get viruses and go to jail for a botnet client saving child porn on their systems!
LOL. Care to modify my Greasemonkey script to match any values of your variables?
I’d love to read Slashdot that way.
Exactly. If something fails, everything else will fill the space in the blink of an eye. And the new competition will make the new offerings even better! (Especially in case of a [quasi-]monopoly.)
“Too big to fail.” is just another way of saying “Too powerful to let us let it fail.”
Umm, and where will those 100kW come from?
Certainly not from any batteries in that jet. Or else it will become so sluggish that it either has to carry huge engines, and become a bomber, or will be shot down by everything that now is quicker.
I thought missiles already rotated in flight, for stability...
He said that
1. it’s not cheating that’s the problem. Getting caught is.
and that
2. cheating takes a considerable effort. Who says that that isn’t a worthwile strategy? ^^ (After all cheating is a popular strategy amongst lifeforms on earth.)
The best moment was, when a friend of mine dropped one of his five (!) small notes he wanted to use to cheat. (Bear in mind that he was the best student in our whole class level!) :)
The teacher noticed it, picked it up, and told him: “Well, this contains nothing that is useful to cheat on this test. So I can’t punish you.” Then he handed him the note back.
Well, you usually can’t run OS X on a non-mac PC. And that PC already includes a hefty Apple tax. So there is no point in additional DRM.
Yeah. “Real Name”.
As real as whatever I choose to enter.
Also, I only joined, to be able to chat with a ton of idiot friends who use Failbook as their IM tool, instead of ICQ/Jabber/etc.
And I have NOTHING on the page. I literally have disabled every single feature, left everything empty, and blocked everyone from seeing anything. The only exception: Friends can send me messages.
I will delete the profile, as soon as Failbook allows cross-server IM (like email). Because I have my own Jabber server, and can then chat with them without registering anywhere.
GP simply knows nothing about psychology/neurology. Religion is literally what one could call a simple form of... well... “schizophrenia”. Now this might leave some people insulted. But you have to know, that that is actually a useful tool, to keep us surviving. So if you call it “bad” depends on your point of view. (Like everything in psychology and every mutation.)
You see, humans MUST at all times have a working inner model of the outer world. Or else we are unable to predict any result of any of our actions. Which would leave us unable to follow any goal... to do anything useful. This, to the human brain, is probably the worst possible state, and literally results in the same strong fear as the fear of death. So we avoid it at any cost.
There are many ways to deal with this. Of course the most obvious one, is to try to understand it, trough playing with it, experimenting, acquiring more information about it. But what, if that it literally impossible? Like the question where the universe comes from?
Or what if we are mentally unable to make it fit with out known reality? We can’t just leave it there, because we would still know of that conflict, and stop being able to live our life.
So what to do?
Well. First there’s repression. Which basically is, when your brain shuts off one piece of knowledge from the rest of your brain. This often happens, after you experienced something so crass, that the association just spilled over, so that you link it to things it shouldn’t be linked to. Like when someone raped you and had a mustache, and now you get a sad feeling and pain down there, whenever you see someone with a mustache!
The problem is, that you will, because of that repression, not be able to remember that actual bad cause. But hate mustaches anyway, not knowing why.
But the worst-case scenario, is when you stop being able to trust the outside world, and don’t find any way to make it work or hide it. Then you end up with schizophrenia. Which is basically (simplified!), that you turn cause and effect on its head. You start to trust your inner model more, that new experiences from the real world.
Does that remind you of something? ^^
I must say that religion mostly still is a thousand times better than full scale schizophrenia. Like dangerous UV in sunlight, compared to powerful gamma rays, for your skin.
Now it’s obvious, that this is unrelated to intelligence. But to the ratio of what you know that does not fit, and what you can make fit. So a dumb person is more prone to it, because it is much harder to make it all fit. But can live a happy simple life.
Such people just have more needs for make do mechanisms, to survive. But is that bad per se? Evolution would not agree.
And someone like Newton... he likely was pretty intelligent. But my guess is, that he simply knew so much that he could not make sense of. He was able to make sense of some things. But others were just waaayyy out of everything conceivable in his time. So religion was a good way out, to not become crazy over questions he would never have been able to solve.
I, myself, can only solve the “where came the universe from” question, trough repression/ignorance. Some choose to use a “god”. Of course this still leaves the question open, where “god” came from. ;)
Fun experiment: If you want to see this protective “Schweinehund” (as we in Germany call it) in full glory, go and try to push a religious person on answering where god came from? ^^ But please don’t bee too cruel, as I could just as well do this to your weak spots.
You wish. With MS I have more than once seen an update, that fixed a buggy update, that should have fixed a bug included in a service pack. ^^
I distinctively remember one for MS Office, somewhere before Office XP.
Next, you download a Linux distro with a LiveCD.
That reminds me of a anti-protip in a German computer magazine, about a decade ago:
“Can’t get online with your modem? Look on the Internet for tips!’
Hmm... if you think about it, I bet Playmobil has sold “learning computers” with a more stable OS and a less childish UI in the past. ^^
Let’s try the uptime on such a thing. I bet you can run it for decades! ^^
No. Avoiding having a single point of failure is basic common sense that can be expected from everyone who can beat a monkey in an IQ test. ;))
Maybe on your tree, that’s what you call an “expert”.
Well, if your dissertation is below 1,474,560 characters (about 350-550 pages)... which I strongly hope for those who have to read it... ;)
Of course with MS Word, you’d be happy to fit a single plain text page on a floppy nowadays. ;)
LOL. What would be the point in using encryption to connect to a server that is not trustworthy in the first place?
Besides: Is you e-mail encrypted?
And it’s far from the worst WTF.
The worst WTF is, that in order to use it, you have to give them your phone number!!!
Yeah right. What’s next? A body cavity search?
Luckily I don’t have to, so I won’t. Facebook can seriously just fuck right off!
Yeah, they offer Jabber support. But if you want to use it, you have to have a user name.
But to have that, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM YOUR PHONE NUMBER!
Yeah, right. Not in a thousand years!!!
WTF? Fuck you, Failbook!
You know that this is Slashdot, right? ;)
“Censorship is a crime, forbidden by your most fundamental laws. Ladies and gentleman, you are engaging in criminal behavior. Do you wish to continue, and go to jail for it?”
And then when they do continue, launch a huge campaign, causing the government to be overthrown.
I am sure Google can do that.
What gave you the idea, that we care what the general public thinks about our area of expertise?
Are you so weak, that you bow to a stream of loud idiots saying that 2+2=5?
We define what a virus is. We define what a cracker and a hacker is. Like professionals in any other profession.
There is no battle, so we can’t lose. I’m still calling anyone calling a cracker a hacker somebody who got no fuckin’ clue. Including you, if you do so. Period.
Wait for the second Star Wars Holiday Special. With Jar Jar’s gay family, lots of shameless merchandising plugs, and the worst singing in human history.
And THEN wait for 4Chan to turn it into a porn film. Guess what the shamless plugs will represent. ;)
(Reminds me of that troll with the greased-up Yoda doll, and this . [If you have a weak heart, don’t click!])
If you can call the product of a pumped-full-of-chemicals, non-species-appropriately fed, mentally crazy chicken, still an “egg”.
Have you ever tasted the egg from a chicken that lives and eats, like it’s supposed to? After that, a industrial cooked egg tastes like a piece of nasty jelly, void of any taste.
And with the healthiness it’s even worse.
You get what you pay for...
Security experts now say they are getting closer to identifying the author or authors of the malware
Translated: They now have narrowed the list down to a hand full of people, and will soon decide who will be the best scapegoat. ;)
I thought they were forbidden with the Adblock and Adblock Plus acts.
And what the hell is a pop-up?