Well, your post contains one truth, your IQ isn't 50. It is far far lower.
QR is simply a bar code. You scan it and get a string of data. That is it. It can contain any string valid within its codeset but it is just a string just a barcode is just a number.
Sure, buffer overflows exist but they exist deep within complex code, not on simple basic stuff as reading in a user input especially when there is only one.
And people with IQ of 50 (you call them master or whatever you can manage to utter with your sub-50 IQ) don't work for banks.
It doesn't matter if the string contains characters that together form a URL, that is only valid if someone with a sense of humor starts testing the read string for what it might possibly contain. It could be a string that if processed as a gif shows a image. But why would a banknote scanner contain the code to do that?
I could build a nut screwing robot and then give it an icecream and watch it transform itself into a icecream eating machine OR I could see it reject the input as invalid because it was never programmed to deal with that input.
What do you think that happens if a random string of text in a ssl key happens to form the word "reboot". That the computer will reboot?
You, the submitter, timothy and an awful lot of people who should be on facebook instead of slashdot seem to think computers are magic. They are not.
Only when silly MS programmers try to make their software clever by trying to guess what input could mean, things go wrong. People who software for banks are not silly.
If you spend a million years beating them over the head with a feature for "smart" input where code just tries to run any input whatsoever, they would just not get what you are trying to do. Such a stupid idea just does not exists in the universe of serious coders. There are no serious coders at MS. Or indeed Apple. Or many linux projects. Luckily banks for make it a point to find it for their "oh shit this is going to cost us more money then the worst/best traders in history" projects. Else the treasury goes after them and this ain't the corrupt branch of government, this is the bit that closes you down and then dissects your corpse while you are still using it so they can find the stupid bit and show it to all the banks. There are a lot of banks, so they will have to cut your up pretty small.
alibaba is B2B. aliexpresss is B2C. This is something that is near impossible to happen in the west. IMAGINE. Amazon selling to bookstores. Ford selling to consumers instead of dealers. It truly is a big deal. If shipping costs to my country weren't often higher then the product, it could be the true revolution webshops have failed to create. The total cutout of the middel man. Buy online and save a fortune because you no longer need to pay to anyone but the manufacturer.
In China, they don't order from a reseller, they order from the buyer. And they buy a lot. Scoff all you want, the future is now and it is not in the west.
Once England was the world power. And so was Holland during its golden age. There have been a lot of former world powers who thought it would always remain that way, and then go replaced by a country that was just a bit more hungry and willing to get things done.
1080p is enough for anyone... good luck getting to 1080p from a betamax tape.
Check the history of trying to recover old "Dad's Army" and "Doctor Who" episodes. They were recorded on tape both by pro's and amateurs. The pro's wiped theirs, the amateurs kept theirs, but it took the BBC a lot of effort to restore the amateur tape recordings to something even possible to broadcast and then it was on acceptable because it was the choice between very bad video or nothing at all.
This isn't about a show being repeated in the summer, it is about old cultural content being re-aired a decade, half a century into the future. And I am fairly confident that we will consider 1080p content hopelessly unwatchable in 50 years time.
Meanwhile, film archives that a century ago. Still watchable and gosh, that film material contains data that was lost when it was scanned for the broadcast of a TV show but now that data is still there on film for DVD, Blu-Ray and god knows what will be next. Else how do you think you got Blu-Ray Star Trek TNG episodes? Not because they recorded the shows at just the max needed resolution of the day they were made.
And where does Star Trek makes is money? In the endless re-releases. Even George Lucas went back to the film archices to get higher resolutions and he was always at the cutting edge at the tech of today.
You only record for TV format of today if your content has no value in the future.
There was a bit of a tiff about photobucket private account images being available for download and people collecting nude images from there and publishing them.
It was nothing new, just this particular site made it very easy. There are TONS of rather sad people who know plenty about computers and have nothing better to do then to try and find images other people don't want the entire world to share.
And stuff like this by McImpotent? Just a small challenge until someone writes a script to not just circumvent it, but make it easier to find the right material. After all, if you want to hide something, it is more interesting right?
There are a lot of genre's within Anime/Manga but the "harem" genre (one lead of one gender, multiple other genders) have long since had the lolicon character. A child like character who for some reason is part of the group. A child genius bumped up several classes or whatever.
But this caught some critism, so what did happen a lot suddenly? An older character, just with an under-developed body. Still pretty much the same, just the supposed age is different. And the character still cutely reacts with small fisted fury at being talked to like a child.
English versions of more erotic Anime/Manga often deal with age issues bij simply raising the age of all the characters to 18, regardless of how obviously wrong it is.
All a writer of child abuse porn has to do is state that X is 18+ somewhere, not mention a minor age anywhere else and then just write the story as before. The audience can easily imagine the implied age if they want to do so.
Hell, the internet is full of porn where something is implied, that isn't really taking place. For that matter, so is "mainstream" media or do you think most Hollywood stars have real sex on the big screen?
Thought crime this is not quite yet but it is damned close. Start outlawing fantasy and only outlaws will have fantasies and anyone who has fantasies, will be an outlaw.
But sure, you aren't defending pedo fantasies?
Ah... you got me.
Fighting the evil was so much easier when the evil went after adult porn. You could stand up for Larry Flint, but for a child porn writer? Not so much. The evil has won, they have the perfect weapon.
Try this, right click taskbar to kill a frozen app. Oh, you can't? THEN IT AIN'T THE FUCKING SAME.
Gnome 2.0 worked, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't nice but it worked and gave users control. The new attempts are all "oh it is so shiny and nice and friendly... a crash application not closing you say? That can't happen, our new applications can't crash, we wrote all new code and didn't test it all before releasing it so how can you possibly have the need to close a crash app when it isn't possible they crash?"
FIX GODDAMN NAUTILUS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE GNOME TEAM.
Gnome logic: Our current code base isn't perfect after years of development, so we create an entirely new one and simply remove every feature people rely on. Something that ain't there can't be broken after all. Then we release it without testing and all will be well.
Well it fucking isn't. Gnome 3 and Unity did more to hurt Linux on the desktop then anything MS could ever have pulled. And there is a connection between Gnome and MS through that moron who came up with Mono.
It is paranoid to think the clusterfuck that is Gnome 3 and Unity couldn't have happened by accident?
Ubuntu was the perfect tool for some friends who just use their PC to browse and chat online. It worked perfectly. The fucking Ubuntu went to Unity and fucked it all up. I have raged as a nerd often enough about the Gnome 3 and Unity shit but it was with the geek installs for people who just needed a PC to launch a browser that it has the biggest effect. Just installed XP back from the rescue partition and told them that IT hates them and doesn't want them to use a computer.
OSX and Windows 8 are just as bad.
It took people years to get used to the standard "windows" method of doing things. DON'T FUCKING CHANCE IT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOME FANTASY OF MOVIE INTERFACES IN YOUR DISEASED MIND.
I am getting more and more pissed of at it, to the point I think the designers of Windows 8, Unity, Gnome 3 should have their hands crushed and told to "adapt" to their new future of disability. It is new and exciting!
If a local city can't produce enough food, its population dies off so fast it is soon back to sustainable levels.
The harsh thing is that the middle east uprisings weren't caused by particular nasty dictators or food prices but by over population. The Arab culture kept its "breed like rabbits" attitude from the days most children died or were outright killed in insane working conditions (look up on how Victorian coal mines were run, or factory mills) but was handed western medicine for free. Result, a population explosion that nobody has a use for.
The west had huge problems as well, "luckily" we had massive wars, millions died. Society in Europe was greatly affected by the gigantic losses of WW1 and WW2. Compare this to "light" conflicts of the middle east. We are talking a few thousand deads at most. Even Iraq stops at a few hundred thousands in years of conflict. WW1 saw that in single battles, sometimes on a single day. You can bet that cleared up the unemployment lines real quick when a town could loose all its sons just like that.
If you get a real feel for the Arab Spring, what you saw were a lot of youths nobody wanted or knew what to do with. You might think they are highly educated since they a lot got a university degree but frankly (and some are going to claim this is racism) they are just not that intelligent. What people forget is that when in the west, when we talk about a university degree and how smart that makes you, we are thinking of doctors, engineers, PhD's. Not liberal art majors.
Lets face it, a university degree means nothing. But in places like Indonesia, the one son sent to university sits at home in clean clothes, not allowed to do manual work because he went to university while the rest of the family is on a starvation diet. And no, I didn't get this from the net, this was told to me by a Indonesian friend and confirmed in a circle of other Indonesians.
For true advances from smart people, you need crazy gay jews. Think about western history, when has anything ever been achieved by someone who wasn't either crazy, gay or a jew? Sane hetero Christians are barely suited to take out the trash at MIT. The great universities of the world are those places where the local villagers aren't entirely sure of the gates around the university are there to keep outsiders out, or the inmates in. Possibly both.
There is no point in just stuffing a lot of youths with a lot of info, if you also don't cultivate a culture where they can run wild with that info. And the countries of the Arab spring, don't have that. They got religious policy at a university. Imagine MIT or even TU Delft with Christian hall monitors. Wouldn't work would it? There is a reason the CD was invented in Holland and NOT Japan. There is also a reason the Japanese made the most money on it... but that is for another rant.
For the middle east and Africa to change, they need to get rid of religion, stop breeding and focus their attention on 1-2 kids who then are allowed to see if they can rise to the top and if not, get an ordinary job. That is what western schooling is all about. Here is your eduction, what can you do with it? Go for a doctorate, be a crazy inventor or forget most of it and get a day job that pays the taxes for the next generation to have try.
The Arab Springs have failed. The old people are back, just a few heads changed, because the core problems can't be solved without being very harsh indeed:
1. Enforced birth control like the Chinese (people talk about the horrors of the 1 child program but forget the nightmare that would have resulted if the Chinese population hadn't been kept under control)
2. Use up the current over population on massive infrastructure projects with "forced" labor (don't have a regular job, you have to take part in construction) and build thinks like canals and roads to prepare for the next generations to come where you hopefully have fewer people and you can build a knowledge economy and start competing with the rest of the world. (Like
I got more then a thousand pairs of shoes and they all got souls. Made from the finest baby leather, treated in the tears of their mothers. This nonsense we right-wingers are soulless must stop.
And as for that silly question you left-wingers keep asking: Will you state that you have stopped eating the unborn.
No I have not stopped doing that. Now stop squirming as a I rape your ass while you secretly still vote for me because one day you hope to be eating the unborn too.
No? Then the system of checks and balances still works.
People who talk about the gestapo never know what this truly means.
The Gestapo doesn't ask if you are guilty. They decide, then torture you for information or just kill you. And if a second after they decided, they get proof from god that your innocent? No difference. THAT IS DICTATORSHIP.
Everything else is freedom with a legal system. And if you thought your legal system doesn't mean things can happen like being arrested on a mere suspicion and questioned for hours. Then you have just lived a very sheltered life. Any normal country with a legal system gives the police the duty and the powers to investigate, arrest and question to follow leads. Just hope you are never a subject of a investigation or will you will learn just what it means to live in a system with a working legal system.
Then again, since the line for emigration to places like Somalia where there is no police who can question you just for receiving a package, is non-existent, I get the feeling that either Somalia government is high efficient at processing immigration requests, or people prefer a country with a working legal system even if it sucks if you ever get caught in its gears.
Replacement tech rarely catches up. 1080p signal? Please, that is so last year. 4k is the new norm. No TV's for it yet? Actually, they are already on sale which means that if you are not recording your repeatable content right now in 4k, you will have a hard time selling it again in the future. That is why some smart people recorded TV shows they hoped to sell again and again on film and not video-tape. Because film has a "wasted" resolution in the days of VHS video tapes but when DVD and now Blu-ray came out, these shows can simply be re-scanned from the original footage and voila, something new to flog to the punters.
I don't know how much data a 100GbE link can truly handle but the fact is that trying to catch up to currect tech means by the time you are finished, you are obsolete. the 4k standard created by the Japanese (and gosh doesn't that say a lot about the state of the west) isn't just about putting more pixels on a screen it is about all the infrastructure needed to create such content. And you better be ready for it now because if you are not, you will be left behind by everyone else.
The future may not be now, but it sure needs to have been planned for yesterday.
The 820 has the internal slot behind a cover. Not the 920. It is pretty clear even in the mess that is the summary.
And modern phones don't come with SD slot, the microSD has been standard for some time. Are you that out of touch?
So basically, you are wrong, out of touch and illiterate. Now do and make the world the better place by nominating yourself for a Darwin award. Yes I know you were just nominated to run for President in Tampa but come on, the Darwin award is more shiny.
And I have to sign up to a Credit Card that costs me a lot of money (EU banking systems are free or charge 15 euro per year) to allow you to take my money?
There are plenty of payment platforms around that accept all the worlds payment systems for you. Use them instead of just a Credit Card processor.
Really smart webshops even give EU customers a discount because that 2% Credit Card charge? Does not exist, iDeal (dutch banking) charges a max of 50 cents if you got the absolute worsed rate in history. So a 200 dollar order doesn't have a 4 dollar credit card free but a 50 cent one. That is money either the customer can safe OR you can keep yourself. And chargeback fee? Ideal doesn't have any. For that matter, a chargeback can only be done when a complaint is made with the police for fraud. Not just because the buyer changes his mind. It is also more secure.
But hey, go credit card only, enjoy the lack of EU business, higher costs, lesser security and blame it all on people preferring to get stuff for free.
You are just trying to trick into leaving an easily trackable trace of my blood rich in succelent DNA everywhere I go... granted not very far with me spurting blood from where once my fingers were but still, police could track me to my corpse!!!
I am one of those geeks who bring their own hardware to the office simply because I point blank refuse to work with cheap shit. In other industries this is perfectly normal, chefs, bakers, carpenters they all got their own tools and only a fool would try to come between a pro and his tools.
Yet in the office, people work behind the cheapest monitors that some boss could find and mice and keyboards that would be overpriced if they were free, which they were and which they are.
It seems people just think a penny a day is to much to spend on a decent office equipment. Well, call me a spender but I am willing to spend that penny.
Even in gaming this is true, for every gaming PC with an expensive video card, a top of the range CPU there is a better then 50% chance that PC will have the bare minimum of ram, a 5400 rpm HD specced for size to store the porn, a monitor in the sub 100 dollar range and a mouse and keyboard that fall apart if you dare to click more then one button per minute.
Valve can introduce all the hardware they want, unless they made it 100% free and stop their games from working without it, it won't sell because the average gamer won't spend on anything but a CPU/GPU.
See the above comment by the moron named blahplusplus who wines about wanting more buttons on his mouse. There are tons of mice available with more buttons, it just asks you to actually buy one and not use the one that you got when your dad gave you his old Dell.
People are lazy, cheap, stupid and filled with self-hate. If you want to introduce a new product and sell this, you got to know your customer and your customer is someone who is beyond contempt.
I don't care what it is from, this line can only be from an a-team like movie. You think it is the best ever when you are 12-16 and then you develop a taste.
Shareware for the PC in the days before I started to use Linux was just impossible to keep up. 10 dollars here, 10 dollars there... it just never ends. I recently made the mistake of paying for a license for Sublime Text 2. Then I had the need for a plugin to edit files directly over SSH. That plugin wants money too. No doubt more plugins are useful and want money too. And I still need to get a winzip license and pay for god knows how many more tools.
It is knickle and diming me to death expect the dimes are 100 dollars and the knickles are 50 bucks. And it is not like these sellers try and make it easy, NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS A CREDIT CARD YOU FUCKING AMERICAN CENTRIC ASSHOLE!
You can either give in (I actually tried to see if F2P works for MMO's and NO IT FUCKING DOES NOT) or say fuck it and be a leech but a leech with money for food.
But YOU are only asking for a small amount. That ain't the issue. The issue is, SO IS EVERYBODY ELSE.
Think of ads. One ad ain't a problem. A thousand ads ARE a problem. And there aren't a thousand ads out there, there are millions. You either shut them all out or go insane. And then that poor honest advertiser who really has a product you might want... well. that honest bastard is blocked out too.
For me the killer with paying for media content was when it became clear that even if you had a song on both LP and CD and Tape AND minidisc (I am a gadget whore)... if you wanted to put it on your new fangled Mp3 player, the music industry wanted you to pay for it again. Now I am a sheep and a I love it when I am shorn but I put the limit at being skinned. Leave us sheep alive to be fleeced once a year, not skinned alive and our succelent meat sucked from out still breathing roasting corpse. Do that and even sheep might get an attitude.
For desktop software, Winzip was the killer. It whined so much for such a basic tool (and you would need a rar license and lha etce tc) that it just became easier to ignore it and just go free software altogether.
It was this shareware attitude that killed the Mac for me. Once was forced to use one and every tool seemed to cost money. Run Linux and you got enterprise grade software for free, use OSX and you pay for a basic text editor. Fuck that.
Japan DID put government funds into its industry and that was the start of the Asian tigers.
And wonderful software from Iran and North Korea? Two of the most backward nations in the world where anyone who uses his/her brain is just a suspect? HA!
The only reason these two countries have such problem with malware is that they have to use western software and hardware and don't have the know how to install and maintain it.
They get them from China. The elite are very well off, it's very similar as to how it was in England and whatever other country American emigrated from. The factory workers are broke, poor and downtrodden but the farmers and the elite? You know, they get massive subsidies and bailouts and a few decades of luxury. And if you're in politics, you get even more privileges like state funded medical care.
Don't worry though, through years of TV watching, they teach their subjects that the socialists are out to steal their American Dream.
The two most backward nations, totally reliant on imported technology for everything, join hands on technology. To do what exactly? Getter better deals on German equipment by placing their orders together?
You also got to wonder how this alliance will work. One hates religion, the other hates communism. A marriage made in heaven!
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On /. you can be certain, whenever someone is talking about sex, he is lying.
Well, your post contains one truth, your IQ isn't 50. It is far far lower.
QR is simply a bar code. You scan it and get a string of data. That is it. It can contain any string valid within its codeset but it is just a string just a barcode is just a number.
Sure, buffer overflows exist but they exist deep within complex code, not on simple basic stuff as reading in a user input especially when there is only one.
And people with IQ of 50 (you call them master or whatever you can manage to utter with your sub-50 IQ) don't work for banks.
It doesn't matter if the string contains characters that together form a URL, that is only valid if someone with a sense of humor starts testing the read string for what it might possibly contain. It could be a string that if processed as a gif shows a image. But why would a banknote scanner contain the code to do that?
I could build a nut screwing robot and then give it an icecream and watch it transform itself into a icecream eating machine OR I could see it reject the input as invalid because it was never programmed to deal with that input.
What do you think that happens if a random string of text in a ssl key happens to form the word "reboot". That the computer will reboot?
You, the submitter, timothy and an awful lot of people who should be on facebook instead of slashdot seem to think computers are magic. They are not.
Only when silly MS programmers try to make their software clever by trying to guess what input could mean, things go wrong. People who software for banks are not silly.
If you spend a million years beating them over the head with a feature for "smart" input where code just tries to run any input whatsoever, they would just not get what you are trying to do. Such a stupid idea just does not exists in the universe of serious coders. There are no serious coders at MS. Or indeed Apple. Or many linux projects. Luckily banks for make it a point to find it for their "oh shit this is going to cost us more money then the worst/best traders in history" projects. Else the treasury goes after them and this ain't the corrupt branch of government, this is the bit that closes you down and then dissects your corpse while you are still using it so they can find the stupid bit and show it to all the banks. There are a lot of banks, so they will have to cut your up pretty small.
alibaba is B2B. aliexpresss is B2C. This is something that is near impossible to happen in the west. IMAGINE. Amazon selling to bookstores. Ford selling to consumers instead of dealers. It truly is a big deal. If shipping costs to my country weren't often higher then the product, it could be the true revolution webshops have failed to create. The total cutout of the middel man. Buy online and save a fortune because you no longer need to pay to anyone but the manufacturer.
In China, they don't order from a reseller, they order from the buyer. And they buy a lot. Scoff all you want, the future is now and it is not in the west.
Once England was the world power. And so was Holland during its golden age. There have been a lot of former world powers who thought it would always remain that way, and then go replaced by a country that was just a bit more hungry and willing to get things done.
So it is 70k vs 77k. Not worth it in my opinion. Not if he is happy where he is. And 10% more for a director role? Seems low.
1080p is enough for anyone... good luck getting to 1080p from a betamax tape.
Check the history of trying to recover old "Dad's Army" and "Doctor Who" episodes. They were recorded on tape both by pro's and amateurs. The pro's wiped theirs, the amateurs kept theirs, but it took the BBC a lot of effort to restore the amateur tape recordings to something even possible to broadcast and then it was on acceptable because it was the choice between very bad video or nothing at all.
This isn't about a show being repeated in the summer, it is about old cultural content being re-aired a decade, half a century into the future. And I am fairly confident that we will consider 1080p content hopelessly unwatchable in 50 years time.
Meanwhile, film archives that a century ago. Still watchable and gosh, that film material contains data that was lost when it was scanned for the broadcast of a TV show but now that data is still there on film for DVD, Blu-Ray and god knows what will be next. Else how do you think you got Blu-Ray Star Trek TNG episodes? Not because they recorded the shows at just the max needed resolution of the day they were made.
And where does Star Trek makes is money? In the endless re-releases. Even George Lucas went back to the film archices to get higher resolutions and he was always at the cutting edge at the tech of today.
You only record for TV format of today if your content has no value in the future.
There was a bit of a tiff about photobucket private account images being available for download and people collecting nude images from there and publishing them.
It was nothing new, just this particular site made it very easy. There are TONS of rather sad people who know plenty about computers and have nothing better to do then to try and find images other people don't want the entire world to share.
And stuff like this by McImpotent? Just a small challenge until someone writes a script to not just circumvent it, but make it easier to find the right material. After all, if you want to hide something, it is more interesting right?
There are a lot of genre's within Anime/Manga but the "harem" genre (one lead of one gender, multiple other genders) have long since had the lolicon character. A child like character who for some reason is part of the group. A child genius bumped up several classes or whatever.
But this caught some critism, so what did happen a lot suddenly? An older character, just with an under-developed body. Still pretty much the same, just the supposed age is different. And the character still cutely reacts with small fisted fury at being talked to like a child.
English versions of more erotic Anime/Manga often deal with age issues bij simply raising the age of all the characters to 18, regardless of how obviously wrong it is.
All a writer of child abuse porn has to do is state that X is 18+ somewhere, not mention a minor age anywhere else and then just write the story as before. The audience can easily imagine the implied age if they want to do so.
Hell, the internet is full of porn where something is implied, that isn't really taking place. For that matter, so is "mainstream" media or do you think most Hollywood stars have real sex on the big screen?
Thought crime this is not quite yet but it is damned close. Start outlawing fantasy and only outlaws will have fantasies and anyone who has fantasies, will be an outlaw.
But sure, you aren't defending pedo fantasies?
Ah... you got me.
Fighting the evil was so much easier when the evil went after adult porn. You could stand up for Larry Flint, but for a child porn writer? Not so much. The evil has won, they have the perfect weapon.
Try this, right click taskbar to kill a frozen app. Oh, you can't? THEN IT AIN'T THE FUCKING SAME.
Gnome 2.0 worked, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't nice but it worked and gave users control. The new attempts are all "oh it is so shiny and nice and friendly... a crash application not closing you say? That can't happen, our new applications can't crash, we wrote all new code and didn't test it all before releasing it so how can you possibly have the need to close a crash app when it isn't possible they crash?"
FIX GODDAMN NAUTILUS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE GNOME TEAM.
Gnome logic: Our current code base isn't perfect after years of development, so we create an entirely new one and simply remove every feature people rely on. Something that ain't there can't be broken after all. Then we release it without testing and all will be well.
Well it fucking isn't. Gnome 3 and Unity did more to hurt Linux on the desktop then anything MS could ever have pulled. And there is a connection between Gnome and MS through that moron who came up with Mono.
It is paranoid to think the clusterfuck that is Gnome 3 and Unity couldn't have happened by accident?
Ubuntu was the perfect tool for some friends who just use their PC to browse and chat online. It worked perfectly. The fucking Ubuntu went to Unity and fucked it all up. I have raged as a nerd often enough about the Gnome 3 and Unity shit but it was with the geek installs for people who just needed a PC to launch a browser that it has the biggest effect. Just installed XP back from the rescue partition and told them that IT hates them and doesn't want them to use a computer.
OSX and Windows 8 are just as bad.
It took people years to get used to the standard "windows" method of doing things. DON'T FUCKING CHANCE IT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOME FANTASY OF MOVIE INTERFACES IN YOUR DISEASED MIND.
I am getting more and more pissed of at it, to the point I think the designers of Windows 8, Unity, Gnome 3 should have their hands crushed and told to "adapt" to their new future of disability. It is new and exciting!
When the harvests fail, you can be the test subject to see how well you can adapt to no food.
Now go and kill yourself Republican and make the world a better place.
If a local city can't produce enough food, its population dies off so fast it is soon back to sustainable levels.
The harsh thing is that the middle east uprisings weren't caused by particular nasty dictators or food prices but by over population. The Arab culture kept its "breed like rabbits" attitude from the days most children died or were outright killed in insane working conditions (look up on how Victorian coal mines were run, or factory mills) but was handed western medicine for free. Result, a population explosion that nobody has a use for.
The west had huge problems as well, "luckily" we had massive wars, millions died. Society in Europe was greatly affected by the gigantic losses of WW1 and WW2. Compare this to "light" conflicts of the middle east. We are talking a few thousand deads at most. Even Iraq stops at a few hundred thousands in years of conflict. WW1 saw that in single battles, sometimes on a single day. You can bet that cleared up the unemployment lines real quick when a town could loose all its sons just like that.
If you get a real feel for the Arab Spring, what you saw were a lot of youths nobody wanted or knew what to do with. You might think they are highly educated since they a lot got a university degree but frankly (and some are going to claim this is racism) they are just not that intelligent. What people forget is that when in the west, when we talk about a university degree and how smart that makes you, we are thinking of doctors, engineers, PhD's. Not liberal art majors.
Lets face it, a university degree means nothing. But in places like Indonesia, the one son sent to university sits at home in clean clothes, not allowed to do manual work because he went to university while the rest of the family is on a starvation diet. And no, I didn't get this from the net, this was told to me by a Indonesian friend and confirmed in a circle of other Indonesians.
For true advances from smart people, you need crazy gay jews. Think about western history, when has anything ever been achieved by someone who wasn't either crazy, gay or a jew? Sane hetero Christians are barely suited to take out the trash at MIT. The great universities of the world are those places where the local villagers aren't entirely sure of the gates around the university are there to keep outsiders out, or the inmates in. Possibly both.
There is no point in just stuffing a lot of youths with a lot of info, if you also don't cultivate a culture where they can run wild with that info. And the countries of the Arab spring, don't have that. They got religious policy at a university. Imagine MIT or even TU Delft with Christian hall monitors. Wouldn't work would it? There is a reason the CD was invented in Holland and NOT Japan. There is also a reason the Japanese made the most money on it... but that is for another rant.
For the middle east and Africa to change, they need to get rid of religion, stop breeding and focus their attention on 1-2 kids who then are allowed to see if they can rise to the top and if not, get an ordinary job. That is what western schooling is all about. Here is your eduction, what can you do with it? Go for a doctorate, be a crazy inventor or forget most of it and get a day job that pays the taxes for the next generation to have try.
The Arab Springs have failed. The old people are back, just a few heads changed, because the core problems can't be solved without being very harsh indeed:
1. Enforced birth control like the Chinese (people talk about the horrors of the 1 child program but forget the nightmare that would have resulted if the Chinese population hadn't been kept under control)
2. Use up the current over population on massive infrastructure projects with "forced" labor (don't have a regular job, you have to take part in construction) and build thinks like canals and roads to prepare for the next generations to come where you hopefully have fewer people and you can build a knowledge economy and start competing with the rest of the world. (Like
I got more then a thousand pairs of shoes and they all got souls. Made from the finest baby leather, treated in the tears of their mothers. This nonsense we right-wingers are soulless must stop.
And as for that silly question you left-wingers keep asking: Will you state that you have stopped eating the unborn.
No I have not stopped doing that. Now stop squirming as a I rape your ass while you secretly still vote for me because one day you hope to be eating the unborn too.
No? Then the system of checks and balances still works.
People who talk about the gestapo never know what this truly means.
The Gestapo doesn't ask if you are guilty. They decide, then torture you for information or just kill you. And if a second after they decided, they get proof from god that your innocent? No difference. THAT IS DICTATORSHIP.
Everything else is freedom with a legal system. And if you thought your legal system doesn't mean things can happen like being arrested on a mere suspicion and questioned for hours. Then you have just lived a very sheltered life. Any normal country with a legal system gives the police the duty and the powers to investigate, arrest and question to follow leads. Just hope you are never a subject of a investigation or will you will learn just what it means to live in a system with a working legal system.
Then again, since the line for emigration to places like Somalia where there is no police who can question you just for receiving a package, is non-existent, I get the feeling that either Somalia government is high efficient at processing immigration requests, or people prefer a country with a working legal system even if it sucks if you ever get caught in its gears.
Replacement tech rarely catches up. 1080p signal? Please, that is so last year. 4k is the new norm. No TV's for it yet? Actually, they are already on sale which means that if you are not recording your repeatable content right now in 4k, you will have a hard time selling it again in the future. That is why some smart people recorded TV shows they hoped to sell again and again on film and not video-tape. Because film has a "wasted" resolution in the days of VHS video tapes but when DVD and now Blu-ray came out, these shows can simply be re-scanned from the original footage and voila, something new to flog to the punters.
I don't know how much data a 100GbE link can truly handle but the fact is that trying to catch up to currect tech means by the time you are finished, you are obsolete. the 4k standard created by the Japanese (and gosh doesn't that say a lot about the state of the west) isn't just about putting more pixels on a screen it is about all the infrastructure needed to create such content. And you better be ready for it now because if you are not, you will be left behind by everyone else.
The future may not be now, but it sure needs to have been planned for yesterday.
Really, the reading comprehension skill on slashdot seems to be in a nose-dive. LEARN TO READ.
Slashdot really needs a moderation "wrong".
The 820 has the internal slot behind a cover. Not the 920. It is pretty clear even in the mess that is the summary.
And modern phones don't come with SD slot, the microSD has been standard for some time. Are you that out of touch?
So basically, you are wrong, out of touch and illiterate. Now do and make the world the better place by nominating yourself for a Darwin award. Yes I know you were just nominated to run for President in Tampa but come on, the Darwin award is more shiny.
And I have to sign up to a Credit Card that costs me a lot of money (EU banking systems are free or charge 15 euro per year) to allow you to take my money?
There are plenty of payment platforms around that accept all the worlds payment systems for you. Use them instead of just a Credit Card processor.
Really smart webshops even give EU customers a discount because that 2% Credit Card charge? Does not exist, iDeal (dutch banking) charges a max of 50 cents if you got the absolute worsed rate in history. So a 200 dollar order doesn't have a 4 dollar credit card free but a 50 cent one. That is money either the customer can safe OR you can keep yourself. And chargeback fee? Ideal doesn't have any. For that matter, a chargeback can only be done when a complaint is made with the police for fraud. Not just because the buyer changes his mind. It is also more secure.
But hey, go credit card only, enjoy the lack of EU business, higher costs, lesser security and blame it all on people preferring to get stuff for free.
You are just trying to trick into leaving an easily trackable trace of my blood rich in succelent DNA everywhere I go... granted not very far with me spurting blood from where once my fingers were but still, police could track me to my corpse!!!
I am one of those geeks who bring their own hardware to the office simply because I point blank refuse to work with cheap shit. In other industries this is perfectly normal, chefs, bakers, carpenters they all got their own tools and only a fool would try to come between a pro and his tools.
Yet in the office, people work behind the cheapest monitors that some boss could find and mice and keyboards that would be overpriced if they were free, which they were and which they are.
It seems people just think a penny a day is to much to spend on a decent office equipment. Well, call me a spender but I am willing to spend that penny.
Even in gaming this is true, for every gaming PC with an expensive video card, a top of the range CPU there is a better then 50% chance that PC will have the bare minimum of ram, a 5400 rpm HD specced for size to store the porn, a monitor in the sub 100 dollar range and a mouse and keyboard that fall apart if you dare to click more then one button per minute.
Valve can introduce all the hardware they want, unless they made it 100% free and stop their games from working without it, it won't sell because the average gamer won't spend on anything but a CPU/GPU.
See the above comment by the moron named blahplusplus who wines about wanting more buttons on his mouse. There are tons of mice available with more buttons, it just asks you to actually buy one and not use the one that you got when your dad gave you his old Dell.
People are lazy, cheap, stupid and filled with self-hate. If you want to introduce a new product and sell this, you got to know your customer and your customer is someone who is beyond contempt.
I don't care what it is from, this line can only be from an a-team like movie. You think it is the best ever when you are 12-16 and then you develop a taste.
Shareware for the PC in the days before I started to use Linux was just impossible to keep up. 10 dollars here, 10 dollars there... it just never ends. I recently made the mistake of paying for a license for Sublime Text 2. Then I had the need for a plugin to edit files directly over SSH. That plugin wants money too. No doubt more plugins are useful and want money too. And I still need to get a winzip license and pay for god knows how many more tools.
It is knickle and diming me to death expect the dimes are 100 dollars and the knickles are 50 bucks. And it is not like these sellers try and make it easy, NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS A CREDIT CARD YOU FUCKING AMERICAN CENTRIC ASSHOLE!
You can either give in (I actually tried to see if F2P works for MMO's and NO IT FUCKING DOES NOT) or say fuck it and be a leech but a leech with money for food.
But YOU are only asking for a small amount. That ain't the issue. The issue is, SO IS EVERYBODY ELSE.
Think of ads. One ad ain't a problem. A thousand ads ARE a problem. And there aren't a thousand ads out there, there are millions. You either shut them all out or go insane. And then that poor honest advertiser who really has a product you might want... well. that honest bastard is blocked out too.
For me the killer with paying for media content was when it became clear that even if you had a song on both LP and CD and Tape AND minidisc (I am a gadget whore)... if you wanted to put it on your new fangled Mp3 player, the music industry wanted you to pay for it again. Now I am a sheep and a I love it when I am shorn but I put the limit at being skinned. Leave us sheep alive to be fleeced once a year, not skinned alive and our succelent meat sucked from out still breathing roasting corpse. Do that and even sheep might get an attitude.
For desktop software, Winzip was the killer. It whined so much for such a basic tool (and you would need a rar license and lha etce tc) that it just became easier to ignore it and just go free software altogether.
It was this shareware attitude that killed the Mac for me. Once was forced to use one and every tool seemed to cost money. Run Linux and you got enterprise grade software for free, use OSX and you pay for a basic text editor. Fuck that.
This sheep is not for skinning.
Japan DID put government funds into its industry and that was the start of the Asian tigers.
And wonderful software from Iran and North Korea? Two of the most backward nations in the world where anyone who uses his/her brain is just a suspect? HA!
The only reason these two countries have such problem with malware is that they have to use western software and hardware and don't have the know how to install and maintain it.
They get them from China. The elite are very well off, it's very similar as to how it was in England and whatever other country American emigrated from. The factory workers are broke, poor and downtrodden but the farmers and the elite? You know, they get massive subsidies and bailouts and a few decades of luxury. And if you're in politics, you get even more privileges like state funded medical care.
Don't worry though, through years of TV watching, they teach their subjects that the socialists are out to steal their American Dream.
The two most backward nations, totally reliant on imported technology for everything, join hands on technology. To do what exactly? Getter better deals on German equipment by placing their orders together?
You also got to wonder how this alliance will work. One hates religion, the other hates communism. A marriage made in heaven!