Depends what their goal is. If their goal is being handed a free pass to arrest anyone on any charges, then a mission statement of "persecute Anonymous" seems pretty successful to me; it's even more vague and harder to defend against than "persecute terrorists".
I got bored around paragraph 3 when I still hadn't seen any point -- so facebook automatically takes stuff down if there is a flood of complaints, then manually checks it, then puts it back up if it's ok? Is that not a perfectly reasonable thing to do?
I'm not sure why people say "always inside" or "always outside" - looking in terms of programming languages, the different formats both have different valid uses:
bob said "stuff" about things
One sentence with a sentence fragment in the middle
bob said "stuff." about things
One sentence with a full sentence in the middle
bob said "stuff". About things
Two sentences with a sentence fragment in the middle
bob said "stuff.". About things
Two sentences with a full sentence in the middle
To summarise: If the quoted text has a period in it, put a period inside the quote marks. If your own sentence finishes after the quote, put a period after the quote.
not all prospective students have the kind of resources necessary for hobby projects
For the first couple of years of my programming life I didn't have a computer; I'd spend hours each evening writing code on paper, then head to the IT rooms during lunch to type it in - I think the habit of thinking before typing has served me well too:P
Granted, the student could be unable to afford pen & paper, or the school might not have a computer, but I think in those cases there are bigger things to worry about...
How come everyone around here knows more than the experts?
Perhaps I phrased badly, but I never meant to imply that I was right, it was more "how do we know that this simple and obvious answer is wrong?"
(I will quite happily put money on things I things I am unsure of if it means someone will give a detailed and interesting explanation of why it's wrong:P)
A bunch of planets floating around in space without orbiting a star
Come to think of it, why are we working on the assumption that basically every object in the universe is on fire*? As a personal bet, £5 says that the vast majority of mass in the universe is in solar systems where the central object either wasn't on fire, or has burnt out billions of years ago
* Yeah, AFAIK the official explanation for this assumption is "because that's all we can see", but maths says there must be more - the explanation for the rest always seems to have dark matter being some mysterious meta-mass unlike anything we know about, rather than simply being planets with no nearby light source...
The option is available, it just happens before the install time. If you want unity, you go to google and type "ubuntu download"; if you want regular gnome, go to google and type "debian download"
Linux is ubuntu's friend, but the users don't care; and why fill marketing materials with details that the users don't care about? While many distros have chosen to emphasise the open-source philosophy, ubuntu emphasises making users happy; IMO both are valid approaches, and indeed both must exist for either to succeed
I personally hated showing my work in school, I've always been good with numbers and could do a good percentage of the questions in my head
This. Brain is RAM, paper is swap space - I'm quite happy to use paper when there's too much going on at once to concentrate on all of it, but other than that it's just slower
with government authorised combatants use it, an assassination device.
Totally tangentially -- why is killing hundreds of grunts encouraged, killing hundreds of civilians is frowned upon but tolerated, but killing one specific leader is illegal?
Some of them have communication channels that they use to co-ordinate. If there was no mention of it on those Anonymous channels, then it's not activity of that branch of Anonymous. According to the article linked, some of them invite journalists into some of their channels.
And made all the easier by Anonymous' nature -- it only takes one member (or one mole) to say "we did it", and even if all the others say "we didn't", the media can still point at that first voice as an authoritative one...
I'm not sure how effective that would be though -- With guns, knives, tall buildings, etc, you decide in a fraction of a second and then there's no going back. With self-suffocation, you really need to stick with it for a few minutes at least, and you need to make sure that you continue to suffocate after you pass out. If the bag falls off after passing out but before death, then you just end up with brain damage...
Think back to the earlier days of computing when it might take 30 seconds or more to get an application started
Back when I wrote one of my first gui programs, I added sleep() calls into the load process, because otherwise the splash screen disappeared before you saw the progress bar move and that wasn't so "cool"...
I presume they had a human readable profiler before; but profile-guided optimisation is something different. TL:DR version, the compiler looks at the profiler stats, and optimises the code so that the most heavily used parts get priority
I don't like it yet, but looking at canonical's track record:
- NetworkManager was shit when first introduced, but after a year or two of the general public testing it and bug reporting, it's now the best network management tool
- PulseAudio was shit when first introduced, but after a couple of years public testing, it's now the best audio layer (okay, still not as stable as raw alsa; but I don't see raw alsa sending skype audio to my headset, media player audio to my HDMI TV, and music to my other PC's auto-discovered speakers over the LAN)
- Unity was shit when first introduced, it's been 6 months and it's still not great, but it's improved a lot and will improve a lot more with public testing
So yeah, if you don't want to be a guinea-pig for the not-quite-ready next generation of software, Ubuntu is not for you. Debian is. Go install that and quit whining:-P
remove those [...] pages that look like a 13-year-old girl threw up all over them
Alienate their core (only) audience, in order to become a second-rate competitor to facebook, in a market where second place is nothing? I'm not sure I see the benefit of this over your "$50 to kill it" suggestion...
Slashdot Mirror
Seconding this - it's an ok adventure game and an ok management sim, tied together with bundles of cuteness and joy~
people with maturity levels of nursery kids are on slashdot
Indeed; everywhere I turn, I see people throwing tantrums and calling names in response to things clearly intended to be harmless jokes :-P
Depends what their goal is. If their goal is being handed a free pass to arrest anyone on any charges, then a mission statement of "persecute Anonymous" seems pretty successful to me; it's even more vague and harder to defend against than "persecute terrorists".
I got bored around paragraph 3 when I still hadn't seen any point -- so facebook automatically takes stuff down if there is a flood of complaints, then manually checks it, then puts it back up if it's ok? Is that not a perfectly reasonable thing to do?
bob said "stuff" about things
One sentence with a sentence fragment in the middle
bob said "stuff." about things
One sentence with a full sentence in the middle
bob said "stuff". About things
Two sentences with a sentence fragment in the middle
bob said "stuff.". About things
Two sentences with a full sentence in the middle
To summarise: If the quoted text has a period in it, put a period inside the quote marks. If your own sentence finishes after the quote, put a period after the quote.
not all prospective students have the kind of resources necessary for hobby projects
For the first couple of years of my programming life I didn't have a computer; I'd spend hours each evening writing code on paper, then head to the IT rooms during lunch to type it in - I think the habit of thinking before typing has served me well too :P
Granted, the student could be unable to afford pen & paper, or the school might not have a computer, but I think in those cases there are bigger things to worry about...
How come everyone around here knows more than the experts?
Perhaps I phrased badly, but I never meant to imply that I was right, it was more "how do we know that this simple and obvious answer is wrong?"
(I will quite happily put money on things I things I am unsure of if it means someone will give a detailed and interesting explanation of why it's wrong :P)
A bunch of planets floating around in space without orbiting a star
Come to think of it, why are we working on the assumption that basically every object in the universe is on fire*? As a personal bet, £5 says that the vast majority of mass in the universe is in solar systems where the central object either wasn't on fire, or has burnt out billions of years ago
* Yeah, AFAIK the official explanation for this assumption is "because that's all we can see", but maths says there must be more - the explanation for the rest always seems to have dark matter being some mysterious meta-mass unlike anything we know about, rather than simply being planets with no nearby light source...
The option is available, it just happens before the install time. If you want unity, you go to google and type "ubuntu download"; if you want regular gnome, go to google and type "debian download"
Linux is ubuntu's friend, but the users don't care; and why fill marketing materials with details that the users don't care about? While many distros have chosen to emphasise the open-source philosophy, ubuntu emphasises making users happy; IMO both are valid approaches, and indeed both must exist for either to succeed
I personally hated showing my work in school, I've always been good with numbers and could do a good percentage of the questions in my head
This. Brain is RAM, paper is swap space - I'm quite happy to use paper when there's too much going on at once to concentrate on all of it, but other than that it's just slower
pro capitalist
Have you somehow managed to miss every article slashdot has ever posted about the RIAA?
Speaking as someone who uses google multiple times per day, I had no idea those options even existed
with government authorised combatants use it, an assassination device.
Totally tangentially -- why is killing hundreds of grunts encouraged, killing hundreds of civilians is frowned upon but tolerated, but killing one specific leader is illegal?
Some of them have communication channels that they use to co-ordinate. If there was no mention of it on those Anonymous channels, then it's not activity of that branch of Anonymous. According to the article linked, some of them invite journalists into some of their channels.
FTFY
And made all the easier by Anonymous' nature -- it only takes one member (or one mole) to say "we did it", and even if all the others say "we didn't", the media can still point at that first voice as an authoritative one...
Why would I spend $300 on hardware that Sony is constantly butchering, when I could spend it on a PC CPU (or now that OpenCL is getting stable, GPU)?
I'm not sure how effective that would be though -- With guns, knives, tall buildings, etc, you decide in a fraction of a second and then there's no going back. With self-suffocation, you really need to stick with it for a few minutes at least, and you need to make sure that you continue to suffocate after you pass out. If the bag falls off after passing out but before death, then you just end up with brain damage...
Think back to the earlier days of computing when it might take 30 seconds or more to get an application started
Back when I wrote one of my first gui programs, I added sleep() calls into the load process, because otherwise the splash screen disappeared before you saw the progress bar move and that wasn't so "cool"...
I presume they had a human readable profiler before; but profile-guided optimisation is something different. TL:DR version, the compiler looks at the profiler stats, and optimises the code so that the most heavily used parts get priority
I don't like it yet, but looking at canonical's track record:
So yeah, if you don't want to be a guinea-pig for the not-quite-ready next generation of software, Ubuntu is not for you. Debian is. Go install that and quit whining :-P
remove those [...] pages that look like a 13-year-old girl threw up all over them
Alienate their core (only) audience, in order to become a second-rate competitor to facebook, in a market where second place is nothing? I'm not sure I see the benefit of this over your "$50 to kill it" suggestion...
If those are the grid references for the different pieces of Sony's battleship, I'm surprised it can float in the first place o_O
Would you trust your government to be your mail provider?
Not personally, but if they're only offering this as a backup for people who don't have their own address already, it seems like a great idea
"All your data is encrypted" and "we'll give the cops some files" aren't mutually exclusive, if they give the cops encrypted files...