There can be a need for portable computing in your life. This is NOT the same as on the move computing but rather where you wish to have the same enviroment at several static locations. The trick is here to remember that no sane person works on a laptop. Your screen got to be higher up to be comfortable and your keyboard lower, flatter and bigger. So... you instead plug it into your laptop stand, link it via say Synergy and use it as an extra screen with your own environment.
For others, a netbook is a very storable PC. A lot of people don't really want a computer taking up space constantly when they only use it for a short time. A netbook is easily taken out, read mail, browse then stored away again out of the way.
These aren't high tech needs, they could be done with anything but a netbook is just the right balance between being somewhat useful as a full PC and not taking up as much space/weighing/costing.
Oh and I am going to let you in on a little secret. Most of the population DOES use computers to create content. This message is content and is far faster to type on a normal keyboard then a touchscreen. Cat videos are content, facebook pages are content, diary entries are content.
Another little secret, when I want to passively consume content, the TV is far far far easier then any tablet. And I don't need to hold it in my hand the entire time.
Mainstream devices like the Pi? You talking about the Raspberry Pi? Mainstream?
Good advice for general people is to watch more then Fox, lest their brains rot away. In the same vein, read something else but Slashdot. If you think the Pi is a mainstream device you got three options:
Your insane.
You are unfamiliar with the meaning of the word "mainstream"
Your reality consists of your mothers basement and a guy you met on IRC and thought was a girl.
In extreme cases, all three might apply.
The Raspberry Pi is hard to get hold of, even harder to use and comes with barely enough resources to run even the most basic OS. But SOMEHOW this device will magically make it into the homes of the average person who can't afford a cheap desktop BUT does have a HDMI capable TV with a spare port to hook it up to...
The INSANITY of all this is astounding, it shows tupe666 has lost all touch with reality, he lives in a fantasy world were a device that takes anywhere from several weeks to several months to be delivered, can only be ordered online and requires advanced linux skill to even be outfitted with a serviceable user friendly OS is installed in millions of homes world-wide. And that this extremely underpowered device is the same as a "hi-priced" PC, god even knows what that might be. If you think a Raspberry Pi is as functional as even a cheap PC, you just don't have a clue. I love Linux as much as the next guy but WIndows IS the mainstream OS and the Raspberry Pi can't run that so it loses out right there.
There is room in the world for PC alternatives but the simple fact remains that the PC setup, large keyboard, monitor at eye height, flat large desk, office chair, mouse is the most comfortable way to CREATE content. For consuming content, the TV is most comfortable. A tablet is a high awkward device for either. When sitting at a desk creating content it is a usability nightmare, the only people who think it is good are those who work on laptops and 20 years from now will complain about their backs non-stop.
If you really want to see what mainstream is, go to youtube and see what people use who put up cat videos. A 5 year old dell they got from someone cheap and a CRT monitor that they can't see any point in replacing with a 100 dollar LCD screen. That is what is mainstream NOT a geek gadget.
Tablets like the iPad sell millions it is true but that is a planet with 7 billion people and many a iPad 3 is owned by a person with an iPad2 etc lying in the closet. You can easily see this with google statistics, what percentage visits a site with iOS? A small amount and it gets smaller the more mainstream a site is. And web browsing is ONE thing tablets are actually good at.
But hey, I am willing to eat my words. tuppe666 only has to publish his address so someone can go and take his PC and give him a Raspberry Pi, 5 dollar keyboard and a TV and THAT IS IT! Wanna bet he won't take that deal? Wanna bet NOBODY on Slashdot will?
However, you pretty much condemned ALL business plans from the sex industry, to renting, to selling.
Laws HAVE been introduced that gave us the right to our own bodies and the right to own land and property. Without such laws, selling and renting are pointless as the "customer" can just take what he wants.
Ah, you mean only those laws YOU are against are shit, not the laws that protect YOU! Gotcha!
All laws are artificial constructs created by man to protect something.
Why do people keep bitching about voluntary taxes? You don't want to pay 10k to the system, don't drink and drive and you won't be taxed. I would LOVE more taxes like that. So easy to not pay. Unless of course your an alcoholic who thinks he has the right to drink drive and endanger others peoples lives.
But hey, surely you are not one of those assholes, are you?
Que being modded down by an alcoholic who cries over Newtown as he scrapes the blood of his fender.
As posted elsewhere in this thread, 10 to 1 this is a spam haven ISP. How can he terminate his only customers? Some east block kid thought he could make some fast money renting out a small IP range to spammers, then found it became useless once it got blocked and now he is butthurt the world doesn't allow his get quick rich scheme. Proof me wrong, get the coward to name the company in question. He can't since it would instantly reveal it for what it is.
The guy posts the question as an AC. Why? That is a MAJOR red flag.
Secondly, no consumer ISP would tolerate such a question being asked on a public forum, they have lawyers in house to deal with this kind of stuff, they do NOT Ask Slashdot. Never. No way, no how.
10 to 1 that this is some east European with a couple of servers at a hosting party who hires them out to spammers and now finds his leased servers are useless to those same spammers because his IP range has been blocked and he wants them unbanned to he can continue to rent out his servers to spammers.
DNS block lists do on occasion hurt real newsletters. But this is about a legit newsletter, why is not mentioned? If this is a legit service that is being hurt, why is not mentioned. If it is a legit ISP that is being hurt, why is it not named?
Could it be that this question is posted by an AC with not even a hint about the nature of the hurt party being the very generic label "ISP" is that even the simplest google research would reveal that the ISP in question is a spam haven?
Anyway, a DNS list is just a list of numbers. It is a fact list that does nothing unless someone ELSE uses that list. Listing ip's on a list cannot be illegal and block mail from MY server is perfectly legal as well.
Spammers have tried fighting DNS lists for years now and failed. This question should never even have been asked.
NEVER trust an AC. The TRUTH is RIGHT there on the linked page
FREE OF CHARGE REMOVAL:
There is no need for you to request removal, if you do not want to pay.
Every IP address temporary listed as Level 1 expires automatically 7 days after the last spam email from it hits our SPAMTRAPS. This means your IP address will be removed, lesson learned, no more spam from your computer.
The FREE option is listed FIRST, you ONLY need to pay if you want someone to manually check your SPAM sending IP can be cleared. Spammers LIE, they will abuse ANY complaint system and this costs time and energy.
Spammers rely on the low costs of their operation to remain profitable, they spend nothing and instead leech from others people infrastructure, efforts and time to make their money. The easiest way to combat this is to cost the Spammers time, energy and money. That hurts their profits the most and is the only way to hinder them.
Yes it sucks to hell and back if you are caught in between with your "legit" reasons to run a mass emailer from your own computer. But the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. Don't like it? You PAY ME then to deal with spam. You don't want to pay? Well... then what do you want? Email was ruined by the spammers, the old idea of anyone being able to mail anyone else is GONE thanks to them. You fix the spammers then because I am NOT going back to the days when 99% of email hitting my systems was spam.
Frankly there are so many alternatives to sending mass mail from your own system, only highly suspicious people want to go around this. And yes, loss of freedom for one means loss of freedom for all... but the costs associated with combatting spam all on your own are just to big. Installing a DNS blacklist is a cheap reliable option and the number of people hurt by it are statistical rounding errors. Really, nobody I know still uses their own email system but instead uses something like gmail with their own domain name. I use Amazon. And gosh, it just works.
Basically, it all comes down who has to spend time and effort. The recipient or the mailer. Do YOU have to make sure as a sender that your system can send to everyone OR does the recipient have to make sure that he can receive from everyone?
The recipient is the person with the least interest here in case of spam AND indeed in regular emails. If some entity wants to mail me from some home IP in black listed range. What is my motivation in wanting to receive said message? The spammer/sender is the one who needs the message to be received.
AND ALL THIS BLACKLIST REQUIRES: Is that AFTER your system has been caught sending spam, it stops sending spam for 7 days. That is all. Just 7 days without spam. The AC whiner clearly is running a system that sends endless spam. He needs to deal with that and NOT demand the entire rest of the world open their system to his spammy criminal customers.
When you sign up for Amazon EMS there are several security measures in place to avoid you using their systems to send spam. That is because Amazon and other email providers spend a LOT of money making sure their IP range remains unblocked and they do this by having people actively making sure no spam is send through their system.
Is it that difficult to ask that an ISP does the same?
Again yes it sucks if you are caught in between but hey, there are alternatives and YOU are FREE to come up with a better system. In the meantime, I take my DNS blacklist thank you very much and not shed a tear about your home mail setup. Hey, at least it is better then in the old days when many including me would just black list entire regions of the world. Still do for that matter, you would be suprised how much less attempts at hacking you get on a small webserver if you just block Africa, Asia, Middle Eaast, East-block, South-America etc etc. But you might get a legit visitor from those regions! For a local amateur soccer club home page?
Nice guy, clever and rich... a bit dim perhaps in choosing his friends or at least in doing business with friends (although staying friends even if friends are not perfect is what good guys do). But nice, clever and rich foremost. Neither Jobs or Wozniak ever needed to worry about where their next meal would come from for a long time. So... who would you want to be? The super rich billionaire Jobs or the quite comfortable millionaire Wozniak?
Microsoft LOVES BSD, they can take code from it and never contribute anything back. But it is Linux that got popular not BSD.
BSD has its supporters, like MS, who don't actually do anything to support it. Linux has supporters, like IBM, who do massive contributions.
The GPL has won, the only ones who hate is who want stuff totally free and not contribute anything back. Well, for those people there is BSD. Enjoy.
The fact that Linux is on its way to become the biggest OS, the most used and the most installs (thanks to Android) says enough that the GPL works a LOT better then BSD in encouraging industry AND consumer adoption.
And still kiddies who never will amount to anything claim that all the Linux users and contributors are wrong. OPEN YOUR EYES!
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Steve Jobs was a nasty mean spirited jerk who always cheated everyone whenever he could. Even close friends. In fact, he has no close friends, just victims who like battered wives thought that THIS time he would change. It is quite sad really that the guy himself that he could never get over his past. Shows you that money doesn't really make people happy.
You got to wonder what made him this way, so obsessed about money and power that he would screw supposed friends over and not even see it as wrong. And continue to do that when any new money would just be a number on a bank account. Compared to Jobs, people like Gates, Branson and Buffet seem a lot happier. Not nicer perhaps in their past but at least with age they learned not to be total assholes all the time. It is not like Jobs did not do any charity but more people will remember him as a prick then as a benefactor. Despite the fact that those friends he did screw over ultimately didn't exactly walk away empty handed.
My epitaph will probably read something like "who?" but it is better then "well, he did give us the iPod but he was such a dick". It not even as if he will be remembered as all that evil. It is just the paranoid always looking out for number 1 that people finally were able to vent after he died.
The guy who made an American company actually produce cool gadgets is more remembered for even in death trying to cheat "friends" and all that over a boat whose ugliness shows that whatever Steve Jobs had for talent, an eye for design was not one of them.
And now for the final insult: This post written on a Samsung Android Phone.
Lets face it, we have recently had some experience with projects that are the core of computing where it went terribly wrong. The GNU tools are so basic to Linux that if they underwent the same rapid development as others, they become unusable. On the other hand, if they don't keep up, they become obsolete. And when it comes to a tool chain, you can't just modernize one because it is part of a chain and it would break the chain. Simply chaining a few parameters for grep would destroy how many scripts?
You can't even just rewrite it in a new structure while keeping the interface the same because that would mean your new version would need to achieve in months a complete feature and robustness parity with the original program. This was one of the things that bit Gnome 3 hard, it just wasn't complete when it was supposed to take over from its predecessor. Stuff like Hurd and Grub 2 suffer similar programs, their goals may be noble and far reaching but they are/were for a long time not even suited as a replacement in all but the most trivial setups.
And frankly, I don't care if the GNU toolset is slow as hell or doesn't get many new gadgets... many of these programs are so essential, so basic to unix style computing that you can wonder if they ever need to evolve. How long has a hammer been a hammer and just right for being a hammer?
Proof me wrong, write a new grep tool. Get it adopted and supported. It will be a very long road. And all along the road you will have a tool that is not yet as widely installed, robuust, tested, documented and understood. The end destination better be paradise to make that worth it.
This guy might be disappointed with RMS support now but just wait until he tries to get support for an alternative grep for people to use, document, bug report, debug. Many have tried such things, most failed.
We don't know what has been found. At least in Holland around this time of year the police arrest lots of people for explosives, illegal fireworks and even worse, those that make their own. Just a few weeks ago a guy blew up his roof, with his kids sleeping nearby. Luckily he only put himself in hospital but it can't be denied that there are always some idiots playing with stuff they shouldn't.
And no liberatarians, this is NOT bottle rocket style experimentation, you don't blow up your roof and get 3rd degree burns with bottle rockets. Not even the slightly bigger amateur rockets and ANY sensible rocket amateur KNOWS not to do the bigger stuff inside your house just as any real racer knows not to do it on the public roads and any real hunter doesn't go after deer with an assault rifle.
So what did they find? House hold chemicals or a kid who didn't know the difference between experimenting and going insane. His lawyer will pretend he only kept a ton of explosives for fun and the prosecution will claim a firecracker is a gateway explosive to terrorism.
So far the reactions are full of what people want to believe and empty of any actual facts.
India is indeed not a simple country and the lack of a Taliban style movement in India amongs it many Muslims is explained by some by the fact that a Muslim in India, despite being among the lowest of the low, STILL has it better then a Muslim in Pakistan. This idea is also present in the Middle East were Muslims in Israel are better off then Muslims in say Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. Even for the Palestines, you see an unreal connection to Israel, they rely on it for jobs, education, medicine, law and even political systems. Don't forget that the Palestines had a vote... it might not sound like much to you but it is pretty damn rare for a Muslim to have one. An elected government. For that matter, Israel has a Muslim party and Muslims in government. How is the ethnic diversity being handled in the rest of the middle east?
Why do you think the Palestines are always looking in? The complaints are always about the Palestine-Israel borders being closed, there is a border on the other side (just as closed often) why not cross THAT one for jobs, medical care, education, shopping, etc etc? If Palestine is a refugee area, it would be like Anna Frank digging a tunnel from Holland into Germany to go to work, go to the doctor etc etc. You would think refugee's would dig AWAY from the place they fled. They don't. There is a reason for that.
It is always hard to choose between a fridge in your house and your ethnic heritage. It is the reason you see lots of grumbling among European Muslims but nobody actually leaving. For that matter, the reason you see very few people moving away from modern countries no matter how much they grumble. How many republicans who said they would emigrate actually did? In France with the election of a socialist government ONE actor moved to Belgium. One.
Most people stay put, put up and grumble if the comfort outweighs the perceived injustices. Better to eat then to life as you say you want eating dirt, with no fridge.
The parent thinks it is the type of leadership... except he ignores that EVERY Muslim country that does even remotely well, did so under military rule and enforced secularity. Turkey is slipping as it becomes more democratic. Yes, it has massive economic growth... do you also get excited when a penny stock goes up 10%? If I go from 1 dollar and hour to 2 dollars an hour, I have a 100% increase. If I go from 100 to 110 dollars an hour a mere 10%. I know which salary I would rather make. Same with India, yes it is making progress but my god does it still have a long way to go. In many ways far further then you might think because it is not like the west is sitting still.
No, the secret to India and its relative peace (IE, it looks peaceful from afar but locally the bodies are piled sky high) is upward mobility. You CAN be a Muslim or lowest cast or even casteless and STILL make it. The American dream is a powerful dream and can keep people content for a long long time. Well, just see how well it works in the US, a candidate who says he think 47% of his voters are filth STILL gets 47% of the vote. because in America, ANYONE can make it to the 1%, so the 1% is not raped murdered and pillaged in their sleep.
Pakistan is far less mobile, those in power are in power and they stay there. That is what ultimately was behind the Arab Spring. Remember that Libya was/is RICH. Filthy rich, richer then rich. NOBODY was going hungry in Libya, nobody was poor but there also was NOTHING to strive towards. It educated its young men and then had nothing for them to do but collect a wage in a meaningless job payed for by oil. The peasants revolvted against their king NOT because they had nothing to do but eat cake. Hunger is better then no prospects. When you are hungry in the US, you can dream of when YOUR day will come. When you collect your wellfare with your diploma in Libya, that was your future.
And this is ultimately the problem. Those in power in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan don't want their people to move but the people want to see at least some
Rationalizing is a sad disease that affects those that have a tiny tiny tiny voice telling them things ain't right in the world but they don't want to do anything about it because it would involve effort and risks their cosy little lives.
It is seen as such stuff as people saying child labor ain't so bad because at least it means kids have an income, that slave labor conditions are better then having no job etc etc. And that horrible nasty practices should be preserved because else you are not respecting peoples culture. Oddly enough these people NEVER preserve their OWN culture, they did take the polio vaccination because apparently THEIR culture was not worth preserving. Only OTHER people should be kept in a primitive backward miserable state to preserve cultural diversion and totally by accident the power of their own culture.
Basically, the grand parent is an elitist asshole trying to rationalize why others must live in misery to preserve their cultures so he can not associate with them.
The US must be one giant hillbilly country there. Where is Donald "Batshit Insane" Trump from? For that matter, right here on this site you can find plenty of conspiracy theorists.
Just yesterday the Nazi Pope released another message of hate unto the world, a message most Americans seem to believe. That homosexuals are the end of humanity or some such bull crap. And plenty here believe it.
Plenty people in the west also are against vaccinations, including Polio and these fucktards are bringing long dead diseases back because of their moronic beliefs.
The truth is that modern society is very scary for some people with all its self-determination and humanity and all. Far easier to follow some guy in a dress and be certain you go to heaven despite all the contradictions.
But at the core is that guy in a dress who is either just plain insane or just plain evil and he manipulates peoples minds to give himself power and it WORKS. Has ALWAYS worked and you can't stop it by being nice. Being nice is like dancing the tango. It takes two. Being nasty is like fighting and only requires one. As long as their is power to be had by being nasty, you can only change things by being even nastier. You can't negotiate with the Taliban because they want EVERYTHING and see you not as an obstacle but your eradication as the very goal. Look at Somalia, mass starvation but the Muslim areas are closed of to aid workers because those in power rather see people starve then risk losing control over them.
You can try and attempt to look at little personal reasons why each individual is behaving like this, try to see it as family drama's were the father sees himself as so important that he rather kill his family off rather then admit he needs help, overly inflated ego's seeing themselves as the dispensers of all wisdom...
But why bother. By the time you solved one guys issue, ten thousand more will have sprung up. Cure one homophobic Pope and the next one will be showing his dangly bits to the bishops who ALL have child rapist among their underlings and did nothing about it. The systems are rotten to the core, taking the rotten apples out of the basket will do nothing if the basket is the source of the rot. Their is power in being a nasty narrow minded prick and power always seduces. Sure you may be ruler of a shitty corner of the world nobody else wants but you are the ruler.
And the real kicker is of course that even the tiniest kernel of truth to all these myths, makes them true enough for most. Organs HAVE been harvested in the world. Not on a massive scale but enough to give the story alluded to by the parent an eternal life. Just check how many here believe the conspiracy theories.
I don't have an easy answer for any of this, this is humanity when you stop pretending and see the little shits around you for the little shits that they are. And then ultimately, you got to look in the mirror and ask yourself. Am I a little shit?
99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% should answer yes. Heaven does not exist because natures abhors a vacuum. Hell does not exist either, it exploded long ago from over-stuffing.
It is part of the taxes you pay when you get a job. It basically a form of insurance. Why shouldn't he claim what he has payed for? The system is WORKING as it should in this case.
No unemployment (and really, you get a small fine last I heard) but welfare is DIFFERENT (Uitkering in Dutch). You don't have to job hunt on wellfare, it is for people that are unemployable for whatever reason, in fact, it is meant as safety net for EVERYONE. And it is almost impossible to loose.
"De (algemene) bijstand is in Nederland de inkomensondersteuning en ondersteuning bij het vinden van werk voor 'wie niet zelf in zijn bestaan kan voorzien' en voor wie geen aanspraak kan maken op voorliggende voorzieningen zoals de Algemene Ouderdomswet (AOW), de Werkloosheidswet (WW) en de WAO. De overeenkomstige uitkering in Vlaanderen heet leefloon."
The (common) assistance is in The Netherlands the income support and support for the finding of work for "who can't support themselves" and who can't claim on earlier services such as Old Age Pension, Unemployment and the Benefits for the handicapped. In north belgium it is called lifewages".
Apology for the lousy translation but a lot of the terms are unknown to me in English partly because the US probably doesn't have such things or at least they are not mentioned in popular media.
Most EU countries got two systems, unemployment (typically limited in time and only available to the previously employed) and welfare (typically lower in amount but available to all who qualify by their need). It is NOT that easy to get kicked out of wellfare because it is after all meant to be a safety net to prevent people from sliding into absolute poverty.
The whole getting the unemployed to work is however a bit of a sham. For instance it has been revealed that programs to get mothers working COST more then they deliver. If it costs 100k to get a person to work for 40k, that is just pointless really. It looks nice in employment statistics but basically the state is subsidizing the employer and the state is you the taxpayer.
And if moms who work can't volunteer anymore at school and the school now has to hire people to do those tasks, you are even deeper in the red. And if they got to send their kids to subsidized daycare so they can work, that is even more money down the drain.
Always suspect government figures on this subject. The idea to get the unemployed cleaning parks for instance sounds fun. Who is going to pay for all the hardware needed? Transportation? Supervising?
It is often just really cheaper to have people sit at home on a minimum income. Not nice but if you want nice, stay out of politics.
This is PART of their punishment, it is not tacked on, it is IT! Punishment doesn't have to constrained to a jail sentence. It can include being banned from a job, restricted from an area, having to report at determined times, being banned from contacting certain individuals or groups, being banned from voting, from owning a gun, from getting a security clearance.
It is in our modern society pretty damn rare to just get a prison sentence and that is it. A probationary period following it is the norm and during your probationary period there are a LOT of conditions and terms that seperate your from a free person. And that is both part of your punishment AND rehabilitation and that is not as contradictory as it sounds. A convict who is in jail is there to be punished BUT is also encourage to study to help his rehabilitation. IF it works it is supposed to be a carrot and a stick with the carrot getting bigger and the stick getting smaller. But the carrot and the stick work ONLY if they are used together on the convict, after all when he was a free man, the carrot was not enough to stop him from getting the stick. The stick alone works in extreme cases, the death penalty.
Our entire legal system however is at the core little more then "stop, or I shall say stop again". It really just doesn't have a solution for those who think the law is for other people. A night in the slammer is enough to stop most people but not a "nutter". What do you do with a repeat offender who just isn't faced by the consequences of his actions? It is easy to say "well, we got to take that chance" but in a democracy the majority rules and the majority thinks that giving people endless free passes to re-offend is wrong.
Man rapes his 15 year old daughter, is sentenced to 240 hours community service, the judge deciding that sentencing him to jail would be to hard a burden on the family consisting of the man, his wife, this daughter and a younger sister... who continue to life with him...
He doesn't have to register, he can chat online but why would he. Two children right at home with him. Oh, he promised to undertake counseling... yah. Because that works instantly and with absolute success.
The really sick truth of it all? Nobody in the world really knows how to deal with those who can't follow the rules. Hard, soft punishment, therapy, making things legal. Nothing really works. Take for instance weed, legalizing makes the crime surrounding it go away? Right... because there are no tobacco and alcohol smugglers and other related crimes anymore? Outlawing it will solve drug issues? Because outlawing stuff stops people? WHEN?
The entire process of trying to stop crime, punish it and rehabilitate or otherwise deal with the criminals has been tried in countless way over thousands of years. And NONE work. Oh some claim some method works better then others but when you look at the figures it is pretty much like debating whether you tiger rock is better then my tiger stick. Both ultimately will have pretty much the same statistics.
And the ultimate lie? Recidivism rate. It counts re-offending criminals whose crimes are reported, investigated, prosecuted, sentended and the sentence recorded. Do you know how the rate of sentencing on some crimes are? Belgium scores 4% on rapes. 96 our of a hundred rapes are NOT counted in recidivism figures yet we are to believe only 70% of rapist re-offend? ONLY 70%?
THINK of the odds, what are they for a rapist who rapes twice to be sentenced TWICE?
But hey, vote for the guy who promises to fix it all. I am sure YOUR guys tiger gadget really works.
You can recycle water. A LOT. Constantly in fact as long as you got electricity. Split your waste in Hydrogen an Oxygen, then combine it again and you got pure water. This idea that a lot of water is required is just plain inefficient. In a generational ship, your are going to have to recycle. EVERYTHING.
THINK first will you, sure a generational ship MIGHT seem like the perfect home for a slashdotter, a basement with all bills paid for BUT generational ships require breeding. Male and females. Sex.
Now I don't know about you, but as a real Slashdotter, that is a price to high to pay! I will stare death in the face and spit him in the eye but talk to a girl?!? NEVER!
Eh... read the FIRST story, it is the more common one. As a fellow coder, I agree the FIRST story should be wiped from the face of the earth, less the fact that we nerds are not perfect in always writing code that compiles on the first run every time, ruins our image with the females of the species.
It is of course one of the annoying things in having to deal with bug reports, so many originate between the chair and the keyboard and since most of them bug reporters pay your salary you can't kill them. Because then they won't pay you. And that is bad. Sure, you can ask yourself what Jezus would do but Jezus didn't have a mortgage to pay did he?
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There can be a need for portable computing in your life. This is NOT the same as on the move computing but rather where you wish to have the same enviroment at several static locations. The trick is here to remember that no sane person works on a laptop. Your screen got to be higher up to be comfortable and your keyboard lower, flatter and bigger. So... you instead plug it into your laptop stand, link it via say Synergy and use it as an extra screen with your own environment.
For others, a netbook is a very storable PC. A lot of people don't really want a computer taking up space constantly when they only use it for a short time. A netbook is easily taken out, read mail, browse then stored away again out of the way.
These aren't high tech needs, they could be done with anything but a netbook is just the right balance between being somewhat useful as a full PC and not taking up as much space/weighing/costing.
Oh and I am going to let you in on a little secret. Most of the population DOES use computers to create content. This message is content and is far faster to type on a normal keyboard then a touchscreen. Cat videos are content, facebook pages are content, diary entries are content.
Another little secret, when I want to passively consume content, the TV is far far far easier then any tablet. And I don't need to hold it in my hand the entire time.
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Mainstream devices like the Pi? You talking about the Raspberry Pi? Mainstream?
Good advice for general people is to watch more then Fox, lest their brains rot away. In the same vein, read something else but Slashdot. If you think the Pi is a mainstream device you got three options:
In extreme cases, all three might apply.
The Raspberry Pi is hard to get hold of, even harder to use and comes with barely enough resources to run even the most basic OS. But SOMEHOW this device will magically make it into the homes of the average person who can't afford a cheap desktop BUT does have a HDMI capable TV with a spare port to hook it up to...
The INSANITY of all this is astounding, it shows tupe666 has lost all touch with reality, he lives in a fantasy world were a device that takes anywhere from several weeks to several months to be delivered, can only be ordered online and requires advanced linux skill to even be outfitted with a serviceable user friendly OS is installed in millions of homes world-wide. And that this extremely underpowered device is the same as a "hi-priced" PC, god even knows what that might be. If you think a Raspberry Pi is as functional as even a cheap PC, you just don't have a clue. I love Linux as much as the next guy but WIndows IS the mainstream OS and the Raspberry Pi can't run that so it loses out right there.
There is room in the world for PC alternatives but the simple fact remains that the PC setup, large keyboard, monitor at eye height, flat large desk, office chair, mouse is the most comfortable way to CREATE content. For consuming content, the TV is most comfortable. A tablet is a high awkward device for either. When sitting at a desk creating content it is a usability nightmare, the only people who think it is good are those who work on laptops and 20 years from now will complain about their backs non-stop.
If you really want to see what mainstream is, go to youtube and see what people use who put up cat videos. A 5 year old dell they got from someone cheap and a CRT monitor that they can't see any point in replacing with a 100 dollar LCD screen. That is what is mainstream NOT a geek gadget.
Tablets like the iPad sell millions it is true but that is a planet with 7 billion people and many a iPad 3 is owned by a person with an iPad2 etc lying in the closet. You can easily see this with google statistics, what percentage visits a site with iOS? A small amount and it gets smaller the more mainstream a site is. And web browsing is ONE thing tablets are actually good at.
But hey, I am willing to eat my words. tuppe666 only has to publish his address so someone can go and take his PC and give him a Raspberry Pi, 5 dollar keyboard and a TV and THAT IS IT! Wanna bet he won't take that deal? Wanna bet NOBODY on Slashdot will?
However, you pretty much condemned ALL business plans from the sex industry, to renting, to selling.
Laws HAVE been introduced that gave us the right to our own bodies and the right to own land and property. Without such laws, selling and renting are pointless as the "customer" can just take what he wants.
Ah, you mean only those laws YOU are against are shit, not the laws that protect YOU! Gotcha!
All laws are artificial constructs created by man to protect something.
Why do people keep bitching about voluntary taxes? You don't want to pay 10k to the system, don't drink and drive and you won't be taxed. I would LOVE more taxes like that. So easy to not pay. Unless of course your an alcoholic who thinks he has the right to drink drive and endanger others peoples lives.
But hey, surely you are not one of those assholes, are you?
Que being modded down by an alcoholic who cries over Newtown as he scrapes the blood of his fender.
As posted elsewhere in this thread, 10 to 1 this is a spam haven ISP. How can he terminate his only customers? Some east block kid thought he could make some fast money renting out a small IP range to spammers, then found it became useless once it got blocked and now he is butthurt the world doesn't allow his get quick rich scheme. Proof me wrong, get the coward to name the company in question. He can't since it would instantly reveal it for what it is.
The guy posts the question as an AC. Why? That is a MAJOR red flag.
Secondly, no consumer ISP would tolerate such a question being asked on a public forum, they have lawyers in house to deal with this kind of stuff, they do NOT Ask Slashdot. Never. No way, no how.
10 to 1 that this is some east European with a couple of servers at a hosting party who hires them out to spammers and now finds his leased servers are useless to those same spammers because his IP range has been blocked and he wants them unbanned to he can continue to rent out his servers to spammers.
DNS block lists do on occasion hurt real newsletters. But this is about a legit newsletter, why is not mentioned? If this is a legit service that is being hurt, why is not mentioned. If it is a legit ISP that is being hurt, why is it not named?
Could it be that this question is posted by an AC with not even a hint about the nature of the hurt party being the very generic label "ISP" is that even the simplest google research would reveal that the ISP in question is a spam haven?
Anyway, a DNS list is just a list of numbers. It is a fact list that does nothing unless someone ELSE uses that list. Listing ip's on a list cannot be illegal and block mail from MY server is perfectly legal as well.
Spammers have tried fighting DNS lists for years now and failed. This question should never even have been asked.
NEVER trust an AC. The TRUTH is RIGHT there on the linked page
FREE OF CHARGE REMOVAL:
There is no need for you to request removal, if you do not want to pay.
Every IP address temporary listed as Level 1 expires automatically 7 days after the last spam email from it hits our SPAMTRAPS. This means your IP address will be removed, lesson learned, no more spam from your computer.
The FREE option is listed FIRST, you ONLY need to pay if you want someone to manually check your SPAM sending IP can be cleared. Spammers LIE, they will abuse ANY complaint system and this costs time and energy.
Spammers rely on the low costs of their operation to remain profitable, they spend nothing and instead leech from others people infrastructure, efforts and time to make their money. The easiest way to combat this is to cost the Spammers time, energy and money. That hurts their profits the most and is the only way to hinder them.
Yes it sucks to hell and back if you are caught in between with your "legit" reasons to run a mass emailer from your own computer. But the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. Don't like it? You PAY ME then to deal with spam. You don't want to pay? Well... then what do you want? Email was ruined by the spammers, the old idea of anyone being able to mail anyone else is GONE thanks to them. You fix the spammers then because I am NOT going back to the days when 99% of email hitting my systems was spam.
Frankly there are so many alternatives to sending mass mail from your own system, only highly suspicious people want to go around this. And yes, loss of freedom for one means loss of freedom for all... but the costs associated with combatting spam all on your own are just to big. Installing a DNS blacklist is a cheap reliable option and the number of people hurt by it are statistical rounding errors. Really, nobody I know still uses their own email system but instead uses something like gmail with their own domain name. I use Amazon. And gosh, it just works.
Basically, it all comes down who has to spend time and effort. The recipient or the mailer. Do YOU have to make sure as a sender that your system can send to everyone OR does the recipient have to make sure that he can receive from everyone?
The recipient is the person with the least interest here in case of spam AND indeed in regular emails. If some entity wants to mail me from some home IP in black listed range. What is my motivation in wanting to receive said message? The spammer/sender is the one who needs the message to be received.
AND ALL THIS BLACKLIST REQUIRES: Is that AFTER your system has been caught sending spam, it stops sending spam for 7 days. That is all. Just 7 days without spam. The AC whiner clearly is running a system that sends endless spam. He needs to deal with that and NOT demand the entire rest of the world open their system to his spammy criminal customers.
When you sign up for Amazon EMS there are several security measures in place to avoid you using their systems to send spam. That is because Amazon and other email providers spend a LOT of money making sure their IP range remains unblocked and they do this by having people actively making sure no spam is send through their system.
Is it that difficult to ask that an ISP does the same?
Again yes it sucks if you are caught in between but hey, there are alternatives and YOU are FREE to come up with a better system. In the meantime, I take my DNS blacklist thank you very much and not shed a tear about your home mail setup. Hey, at least it is better then in the old days when many including me would just black list entire regions of the world. Still do for that matter, you would be suprised how much less attempts at hacking you get on a small webserver if you just block Africa, Asia, Middle Eaast, East-block, South-America etc etc. But you might get a legit visitor from those regions! For a local amateur soccer club home page?
My time is money,
Nice guy, clever and rich... a bit dim perhaps in choosing his friends or at least in doing business with friends (although staying friends even if friends are not perfect is what good guys do). But nice, clever and rich foremost. Neither Jobs or Wozniak ever needed to worry about where their next meal would come from for a long time. So... who would you want to be? The super rich billionaire Jobs or the quite comfortable millionaire Wozniak?
Microsoft LOVES BSD, they can take code from it and never contribute anything back. But it is Linux that got popular not BSD.
BSD has its supporters, like MS, who don't actually do anything to support it. Linux has supporters, like IBM, who do massive contributions.
The GPL has won, the only ones who hate is who want stuff totally free and not contribute anything back. Well, for those people there is BSD. Enjoy.
The fact that Linux is on its way to become the biggest OS, the most used and the most installs (thanks to Android) says enough that the GPL works a LOT better then BSD in encouraging industry AND consumer adoption.
And still kiddies who never will amount to anything claim that all the Linux users and contributors are wrong. OPEN YOUR EYES!
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Steve Jobs was a nasty mean spirited jerk who always cheated everyone whenever he could. Even close friends. In fact, he has no close friends, just victims who like battered wives thought that THIS time he would change. It is quite sad really that the guy himself that he could never get over his past. Shows you that money doesn't really make people happy.
You got to wonder what made him this way, so obsessed about money and power that he would screw supposed friends over and not even see it as wrong. And continue to do that when any new money would just be a number on a bank account. Compared to Jobs, people like Gates, Branson and Buffet seem a lot happier. Not nicer perhaps in their past but at least with age they learned not to be total assholes all the time. It is not like Jobs did not do any charity but more people will remember him as a prick then as a benefactor. Despite the fact that those friends he did screw over ultimately didn't exactly walk away empty handed.
My epitaph will probably read something like "who?" but it is better then "well, he did give us the iPod but he was such a dick". It not even as if he will be remembered as all that evil. It is just the paranoid always looking out for number 1 that people finally were able to vent after he died.
The guy who made an American company actually produce cool gadgets is more remembered for even in death trying to cheat "friends" and all that over a boat whose ugliness shows that whatever Steve Jobs had for talent, an eye for design was not one of them.
And now for the final insult: This post written on a Samsung Android Phone.
Cry havoc and release the Apple fans!
Lets face it, we have recently had some experience with projects that are the core of computing where it went terribly wrong. The GNU tools are so basic to Linux that if they underwent the same rapid development as others, they become unusable. On the other hand, if they don't keep up, they become obsolete. And when it comes to a tool chain, you can't just modernize one because it is part of a chain and it would break the chain. Simply chaining a few parameters for grep would destroy how many scripts?
You can't even just rewrite it in a new structure while keeping the interface the same because that would mean your new version would need to achieve in months a complete feature and robustness parity with the original program. This was one of the things that bit Gnome 3 hard, it just wasn't complete when it was supposed to take over from its predecessor. Stuff like Hurd and Grub 2 suffer similar programs, their goals may be noble and far reaching but they are/were for a long time not even suited as a replacement in all but the most trivial setups.
And frankly, I don't care if the GNU toolset is slow as hell or doesn't get many new gadgets... many of these programs are so essential, so basic to unix style computing that you can wonder if they ever need to evolve. How long has a hammer been a hammer and just right for being a hammer?
Proof me wrong, write a new grep tool. Get it adopted and supported. It will be a very long road. And all along the road you will have a tool that is not yet as widely installed, robuust, tested, documented and understood. The end destination better be paradise to make that worth it.
This guy might be disappointed with RMS support now but just wait until he tries to get support for an alternative grep for people to use, document, bug report, debug. Many have tried such things, most failed.
Google Mufti of Jeruzalem. A man much admired by Fatah and its leadership and one of the architects of the holocaust.
Your turn.
We don't know what has been found. At least in Holland around this time of year the police arrest lots of people for explosives, illegal fireworks and even worse, those that make their own. Just a few weeks ago a guy blew up his roof, with his kids sleeping nearby. Luckily he only put himself in hospital but it can't be denied that there are always some idiots playing with stuff they shouldn't.
And no liberatarians, this is NOT bottle rocket style experimentation, you don't blow up your roof and get 3rd degree burns with bottle rockets. Not even the slightly bigger amateur rockets and ANY sensible rocket amateur KNOWS not to do the bigger stuff inside your house just as any real racer knows not to do it on the public roads and any real hunter doesn't go after deer with an assault rifle.
So what did they find? House hold chemicals or a kid who didn't know the difference between experimenting and going insane. His lawyer will pretend he only kept a ton of explosives for fun and the prosecution will claim a firecracker is a gateway explosive to terrorism.
So far the reactions are full of what people want to believe and empty of any actual facts.
India is indeed not a simple country and the lack of a Taliban style movement in India amongs it many Muslims is explained by some by the fact that a Muslim in India, despite being among the lowest of the low, STILL has it better then a Muslim in Pakistan. This idea is also present in the Middle East were Muslims in Israel are better off then Muslims in say Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. Even for the Palestines, you see an unreal connection to Israel, they rely on it for jobs, education, medicine, law and even political systems. Don't forget that the Palestines had a vote... it might not sound like much to you but it is pretty damn rare for a Muslim to have one. An elected government. For that matter, Israel has a Muslim party and Muslims in government. How is the ethnic diversity being handled in the rest of the middle east?
Why do you think the Palestines are always looking in? The complaints are always about the Palestine-Israel borders being closed, there is a border on the other side (just as closed often) why not cross THAT one for jobs, medical care, education, shopping, etc etc? If Palestine is a refugee area, it would be like Anna Frank digging a tunnel from Holland into Germany to go to work, go to the doctor etc etc. You would think refugee's would dig AWAY from the place they fled. They don't. There is a reason for that.
It is always hard to choose between a fridge in your house and your ethnic heritage. It is the reason you see lots of grumbling among European Muslims but nobody actually leaving. For that matter, the reason you see very few people moving away from modern countries no matter how much they grumble. How many republicans who said they would emigrate actually did? In France with the election of a socialist government ONE actor moved to Belgium. One.
Most people stay put, put up and grumble if the comfort outweighs the perceived injustices. Better to eat then to life as you say you want eating dirt, with no fridge.
The parent thinks it is the type of leadership... except he ignores that EVERY Muslim country that does even remotely well, did so under military rule and enforced secularity. Turkey is slipping as it becomes more democratic. Yes, it has massive economic growth... do you also get excited when a penny stock goes up 10%? If I go from 1 dollar and hour to 2 dollars an hour, I have a 100% increase. If I go from 100 to 110 dollars an hour a mere 10%. I know which salary I would rather make. Same with India, yes it is making progress but my god does it still have a long way to go. In many ways far further then you might think because it is not like the west is sitting still.
No, the secret to India and its relative peace (IE, it looks peaceful from afar but locally the bodies are piled sky high) is upward mobility. You CAN be a Muslim or lowest cast or even casteless and STILL make it. The American dream is a powerful dream and can keep people content for a long long time. Well, just see how well it works in the US, a candidate who says he think 47% of his voters are filth STILL gets 47% of the vote. because in America, ANYONE can make it to the 1%, so the 1% is not raped murdered and pillaged in their sleep.
Pakistan is far less mobile, those in power are in power and they stay there. That is what ultimately was behind the Arab Spring. Remember that Libya was/is RICH. Filthy rich, richer then rich. NOBODY was going hungry in Libya, nobody was poor but there also was NOTHING to strive towards. It educated its young men and then had nothing for them to do but collect a wage in a meaningless job payed for by oil. The peasants revolvted against their king NOT because they had nothing to do but eat cake. Hunger is better then no prospects. When you are hungry in the US, you can dream of when YOUR day will come. When you collect your wellfare with your diploma in Libya, that was your future.
And this is ultimately the problem. Those in power in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan don't want their people to move but the people want to see at least some
Rationalizing is a sad disease that affects those that have a tiny tiny tiny voice telling them things ain't right in the world but they don't want to do anything about it because it would involve effort and risks their cosy little lives.
It is seen as such stuff as people saying child labor ain't so bad because at least it means kids have an income, that slave labor conditions are better then having no job etc etc. And that horrible nasty practices should be preserved because else you are not respecting peoples culture. Oddly enough these people NEVER preserve their OWN culture, they did take the polio vaccination because apparently THEIR culture was not worth preserving. Only OTHER people should be kept in a primitive backward miserable state to preserve cultural diversion and totally by accident the power of their own culture.
Basically, the grand parent is an elitist asshole trying to rationalize why others must live in misery to preserve their cultures so he can not associate with them.
The US must be one giant hillbilly country there. Where is Donald "Batshit Insane" Trump from? For that matter, right here on this site you can find plenty of conspiracy theorists.
Just yesterday the Nazi Pope released another message of hate unto the world, a message most Americans seem to believe. That homosexuals are the end of humanity or some such bull crap. And plenty here believe it.
Plenty people in the west also are against vaccinations, including Polio and these fucktards are bringing long dead diseases back because of their moronic beliefs.
The truth is that modern society is very scary for some people with all its self-determination and humanity and all. Far easier to follow some guy in a dress and be certain you go to heaven despite all the contradictions.
But at the core is that guy in a dress who is either just plain insane or just plain evil and he manipulates peoples minds to give himself power and it WORKS. Has ALWAYS worked and you can't stop it by being nice. Being nice is like dancing the tango. It takes two. Being nasty is like fighting and only requires one. As long as their is power to be had by being nasty, you can only change things by being even nastier. You can't negotiate with the Taliban because they want EVERYTHING and see you not as an obstacle but your eradication as the very goal. Look at Somalia, mass starvation but the Muslim areas are closed of to aid workers because those in power rather see people starve then risk losing control over them.
You can try and attempt to look at little personal reasons why each individual is behaving like this, try to see it as family drama's were the father sees himself as so important that he rather kill his family off rather then admit he needs help, overly inflated ego's seeing themselves as the dispensers of all wisdom...
But why bother. By the time you solved one guys issue, ten thousand more will have sprung up. Cure one homophobic Pope and the next one will be showing his dangly bits to the bishops who ALL have child rapist among their underlings and did nothing about it. The systems are rotten to the core, taking the rotten apples out of the basket will do nothing if the basket is the source of the rot. Their is power in being a nasty narrow minded prick and power always seduces. Sure you may be ruler of a shitty corner of the world nobody else wants but you are the ruler.
And the real kicker is of course that even the tiniest kernel of truth to all these myths, makes them true enough for most. Organs HAVE been harvested in the world. Not on a massive scale but enough to give the story alluded to by the parent an eternal life. Just check how many here believe the conspiracy theories.
I don't have an easy answer for any of this, this is humanity when you stop pretending and see the little shits around you for the little shits that they are. And then ultimately, you got to look in the mirror and ask yourself. Am I a little shit?
99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% should answer yes. Heaven does not exist because natures abhors a vacuum. Hell does not exist either, it exploded long ago from over-stuffing.
It is part of the taxes you pay when you get a job. It basically a form of insurance. Why shouldn't he claim what he has payed for? The system is WORKING as it should in this case.
No unemployment (and really, you get a small fine last I heard) but welfare is DIFFERENT (Uitkering in Dutch). You don't have to job hunt on wellfare, it is for people that are unemployable for whatever reason, in fact, it is meant as safety net for EVERYONE. And it is almost impossible to loose.
"De (algemene) bijstand is in Nederland de inkomensondersteuning en ondersteuning bij het vinden van werk voor 'wie niet zelf in zijn bestaan kan voorzien' en voor wie geen aanspraak kan maken op voorliggende voorzieningen zoals de Algemene Ouderdomswet (AOW), de Werkloosheidswet (WW) en de WAO. De overeenkomstige uitkering in Vlaanderen heet leefloon."
The (common) assistance is in The Netherlands the income support and support for the finding of work for "who can't support themselves" and who can't claim on earlier services such as Old Age Pension, Unemployment and the Benefits for the handicapped. In north belgium it is called lifewages".
Apology for the lousy translation but a lot of the terms are unknown to me in English partly because the US probably doesn't have such things or at least they are not mentioned in popular media.
Most EU countries got two systems, unemployment (typically limited in time and only available to the previously employed) and welfare (typically lower in amount but available to all who qualify by their need). It is NOT that easy to get kicked out of wellfare because it is after all meant to be a safety net to prevent people from sliding into absolute poverty.
The whole getting the unemployed to work is however a bit of a sham. For instance it has been revealed that programs to get mothers working COST more then they deliver. If it costs 100k to get a person to work for 40k, that is just pointless really. It looks nice in employment statistics but basically the state is subsidizing the employer and the state is you the taxpayer.
And if moms who work can't volunteer anymore at school and the school now has to hire people to do those tasks, you are even deeper in the red. And if they got to send their kids to subsidized daycare so they can work, that is even more money down the drain.
Always suspect government figures on this subject. The idea to get the unemployed cleaning parks for instance sounds fun. Who is going to pay for all the hardware needed? Transportation? Supervising?
It is often just really cheaper to have people sit at home on a minimum income. Not nice but if you want nice, stay out of politics.
This is PART of their punishment, it is not tacked on, it is IT! Punishment doesn't have to constrained to a jail sentence. It can include being banned from a job, restricted from an area, having to report at determined times, being banned from contacting certain individuals or groups, being banned from voting, from owning a gun, from getting a security clearance.
It is in our modern society pretty damn rare to just get a prison sentence and that is it. A probationary period following it is the norm and during your probationary period there are a LOT of conditions and terms that seperate your from a free person. And that is both part of your punishment AND rehabilitation and that is not as contradictory as it sounds. A convict who is in jail is there to be punished BUT is also encourage to study to help his rehabilitation. IF it works it is supposed to be a carrot and a stick with the carrot getting bigger and the stick getting smaller. But the carrot and the stick work ONLY if they are used together on the convict, after all when he was a free man, the carrot was not enough to stop him from getting the stick. The stick alone works in extreme cases, the death penalty.
Our entire legal system however is at the core little more then "stop, or I shall say stop again". It really just doesn't have a solution for those who think the law is for other people. A night in the slammer is enough to stop most people but not a "nutter". What do you do with a repeat offender who just isn't faced by the consequences of his actions? It is easy to say "well, we got to take that chance" but in a democracy the majority rules and the majority thinks that giving people endless free passes to re-offend is wrong.
To give you an idea of how wrong it can go when you let the bleeding hearts in charge: http://nos.nl/artikel/453072-werkstraf-na-misbruik-stiefdochter.html
Man rapes his 15 year old daughter, is sentenced to 240 hours community service, the judge deciding that sentencing him to jail would be to hard a burden on the family consisting of the man, his wife, this daughter and a younger sister... who continue to life with him...
He doesn't have to register, he can chat online but why would he. Two children right at home with him. Oh, he promised to undertake counseling... yah. Because that works instantly and with absolute success.
The really sick truth of it all? Nobody in the world really knows how to deal with those who can't follow the rules. Hard, soft punishment, therapy, making things legal. Nothing really works. Take for instance weed, legalizing makes the crime surrounding it go away? Right... because there are no tobacco and alcohol smugglers and other related crimes anymore? Outlawing it will solve drug issues? Because outlawing stuff stops people? WHEN?
The entire process of trying to stop crime, punish it and rehabilitate or otherwise deal with the criminals has been tried in countless way over thousands of years. And NONE work. Oh some claim some method works better then others but when you look at the figures it is pretty much like debating whether you tiger rock is better then my tiger stick. Both ultimately will have pretty much the same statistics.
And the ultimate lie? Recidivism rate. It counts re-offending criminals whose crimes are reported, investigated, prosecuted, sentended and the sentence recorded. Do you know how the rate of sentencing on some crimes are? Belgium scores 4% on rapes. 96 our of a hundred rapes are NOT counted in recidivism figures yet we are to believe only 70% of rapist re-offend? ONLY 70%?
THINK of the odds, what are they for a rapist who rapes twice to be sentenced TWICE?
But hey, vote for the guy who promises to fix it all. I am sure YOUR guys tiger gadget really works.
http://fucktimkuik.org/
Links to a random proxy and hasn't gone down yet.
The silly thing? I actually stopped for a long time with file sharing because it just wasn't worth it anymore and not much fun. Now it is.
Challenge accepted!
You can recycle water. A LOT. Constantly in fact as long as you got electricity. Split your waste in Hydrogen an Oxygen, then combine it again and you got pure water. This idea that a lot of water is required is just plain inefficient. In a generational ship, your are going to have to recycle. EVERYTHING.
THINK first will you, sure a generational ship MIGHT seem like the perfect home for a slashdotter, a basement with all bills paid for BUT generational ships require breeding. Male and females. Sex.
Now I don't know about you, but as a real Slashdotter, that is a price to high to pay! I will stare death in the face and spit him in the eye but talk to a girl?!? NEVER!
Eh... read the FIRST story, it is the more common one. As a fellow coder, I agree the FIRST story should be wiped from the face of the earth, less the fact that we nerds are not perfect in always writing code that compiles on the first run every time, ruins our image with the females of the species.
It is of course one of the annoying things in having to deal with bug reports, so many originate between the chair and the keyboard and since most of them bug reporters pay your salary you can't kill them. Because then they won't pay you. And that is bad. Sure, you can ask yourself what Jezus would do but Jezus didn't have a mortgage to pay did he?