The truth of the matter is that Al Gore created the first Artificial Intelligence, the A.I. Gore-bot.
The AI Gore-bot created the internet (actually, "took initiative in the creation of the internet) when it was a senator. Later the AI Gore-bot ran for the office of President of the United States, but lost despite its uncanny resemblance to a human being. (Somewhere in there, the AI Gorebot was elected Vice President, but spent most of the time unplugged and hidden in a closet.)
If they wanted to hedge their bets, they could begin developing a S60 based web browser.
Opera got its start as a phone company spin off. It's still a reasonably small company, and might be nimble enough to navigate the changes from open source software and adapt their business model accordingly.
Sorry, Cable companies didn't get subsidized at all.
Why do you bother trying to pass off bullshit when a simple google, using the keywords "cable" and "subsidy" tells us otherwise.
If you're going to play fast and loose with the truth, maybe you should give us a disclaimer, disclosing any finacial, business, or other relationship you have with the cable business.
The way I see it, either you're an astroturfer or you really don't know what your talking about and you really don't care that you don't know. Whether this amounts to your being an asshole or an idiot is an open question.
Where I live, I have NO broadband available - at least, I'm pretty sure that the trees are in the way of satellite access, and I certainly can't get anything else.
Ahhh, this might have something to do with your attitude towards Tiered Internet. =)
FWIW, however fast wireless broadband gets here, it really will not help anyone escape from Tiered Internet.
If one accepts the premise that a tiered internet is a bad thing, one is still left with the question, "What can we do about it?" Let's say that the Government fails to regulate and stop it from occurring.
Are there any alternatives to just sucking it up and dealing with it?
I think the one thing that the telecoms understand is money. If companies that embraced the tiered internet were to find themselves cut off from the rest of the internet, they'd have lots of very irate customers demanding refunds and no prospects of new customers.
There's two ways that this could be done. The legal method would be through the creation of a Net Neutrality Alliance, which could, if it contained the right members, cut out those not willing to play by net neutrality rules. You want to shape traffic for profit? Fine, we're just going to shape your traffic out of existence.
Since this is not likely to happen, we are left with the illegal method: structural hits on the telecoms internet gateways. Whether these hits are done physically or cyberneticly doesn't make much difference. The point is to disrupt the tiered internet. The risks involved in such an enterprise are huge. One could go away for a very long time if caught. I'm not certain that there are people with expertise that are willing to take the risk. Maybe the Russian spammers?
In your examples, finding of guilt and meting out of punishment should be handled by schools, and not by the police and courts?
What's ironic is that you go on to accuse someone of using a straw man, after bringing in this ludicrous non-applicable (to the case at hand) examples.
I think he means that it is difficult to get a teaching job if one is convicted of a crime. Poorly phrased, and seems to imply that an academic department would care one way or another about an adult student's behavior off campus and outside of class.
Nobody is forcing you to attend a private school (outside of your family). If you and your family felt that the school was overstepping its, you could decide to attend another school. If you feel that your employer is overstepping its bounds by requiring drug tests, you are free to find employment elsewhere.
However, if you are under the age of 18 in the United States, school attendance is mandatory. If your school or your school district oversteps its authority, you can't just go elsewhere.
But there's a significant difference in what [you] (allegedly) did and what this kid did. If you were involved at all with the posession or sale of marijuana, that is a criminal activity. What this kid did, writing down his vulgar, but non-threatening opinions of the school is not criminal. It is, in fact, constitutionally protected.
1. There is no significant difference. In both cases, the school is overstepping its bounds, involving itself in matters way beyond its purview.
1.a A rumor of criminal activity isn't sufficient for criminal conviction in a court of law. Why should it be sufficient for a school?
2. The Right to Party is protected by the Constitution. Please refer to the famous case Beastie Boys v. Your Mom, in which the Supreme Court ruled that your mom does not have the right to throw away your best porno mag.
And where was his laywer when he was being deposed?
Sitting next to him, I imagine.
Initially, on first reading, I believed the guy and felt sympathetic. But there are too many omissions, to much he has not said. He's not being straightforward. And if he's not being straightforward, he's trying to conceal something from the reader (us). Indeed, one must read between the lines to discover that he is suing the class action law firm! Why couldn't he be upfront about that, and tell us on what grounds he is suing? Again, this makes me wonder what he's not telling us.
I commend you on your creation and use of this straw man, (that "Diversity" is the end all and be all for information security). Then, like a soda virtuoso soda jerk putting a cherry atop some frozen confection, you deftly place a car analogy upon the crown of your straw man. I don't think anyone (that has any intelligence) is arguing that a diverse computing environment is going to solve all computer problerms.
Incidentally, using your freeway analogy, what would happen if one day, without warning, there simply was not enough gasoline? Gasoline powered vehicles would not function, and unless there were vehicles capable of running on alternative power sources, transportation in any meaningful sense would just not happen. The more alternatives there are to gasoline engines in actual use, the less impact such a sudden loss of gasoline motive power would have.
Does that rough analogy clue you in as to what the conversation is really about?
The smart thing about that is they're keeping their hardware lean and low cost while at the same time not limiting the customer's choices. Something as simple as adding a USB port instead of using an internal HD lowers costs while increasing flexibility. Sure, this means the customer will need to buy a USB HD (if he doesn't already have one on hand), but not all customers will really need or want one.
I grew up in a barren waste, and if there's one thing I can't stand, it those farmers and ranchers who think they're superior just because their land is arable or has grazable acreage. Walking around with their noses in the air, acting all high and mighty because they can afford a pair of overalls or shit-kicking boots. I hate 'em!
I'm not in the habit of helping along the next generation of script kiddies. If you're smart enough to use the information responsibly, you're also smart enough to figure it out on your own.
Beyond that, I've no interest in further enlightening you.
Translation: I'm so full of shit, if you pumped me in the ass a few times, you'd swear I was a stinky brown pasta machine.
Seriously, that sort of "mysterious" BS might fly on your AOL chat rooms, but it's not going to fly on slashdot, even if slashdot has gone downhill the past few years.
Your old grandma just needs something that works, not something that takes an associates degree from CalTech to use!
I just wanted to note that Cal Tech only offers an associates degree (AA) in Cosmetology, not in Computer Science. I have a friend that studied robot manicures there.
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I apologize for the name calling. Sometimes I'm an idiotic asshole. Thanks for coming clean.
It's amazing how the internet rewrites history.
The truth of the matter is that Al Gore created the first Artificial Intelligence, the A.I. Gore-bot.
The AI Gore-bot created the internet (actually, "took initiative in the creation of the internet) when it was a senator. Later the AI Gore-bot ran for the office of President of the United States, but lost despite its uncanny resemblance to a human being. (Somewhere in there, the AI Gorebot was elected Vice President, but spent most of the time unplugged and hidden in a closet.)
A girl, a tan, a canal. Ipanema!
No, wait . . .
If they wanted to hedge their bets, they could begin developing a S60 based web browser.
Opera got its start as a phone company spin off. It's still a reasonably small company, and might be nimble enough to navigate the changes from open source software and adapt their business model accordingly.
Sorry, Cable companies didn't get subsidized at all.
Why do you bother trying to pass off bullshit when a simple google, using the keywords "cable" and "subsidy" tells us otherwise.
If you're going to play fast and loose with the truth, maybe you should give us a disclaimer, disclosing any finacial, business, or other relationship you have with the cable business.
The way I see it, either you're an astroturfer or you really don't know what your talking about and you really don't care that you don't know. Whether this amounts to your being an asshole or an idiot is an open question.
Yeah, he should try one of these instead:
I raise funds for political causes and I VOTE!
My business employs 400 people, and WE ALL VOTE!
I like to burn things, and I VOTE!
(Actually, I'm not sure if that last one is all that effective.)
Where I live, I have NO broadband available - at least, I'm pretty sure that the trees are in the way of satellite access, and I certainly can't get anything else.
Ahhh, this might have something to do with your attitude towards Tiered Internet. =)
FWIW, however fast wireless broadband gets here, it really will not help anyone escape from Tiered Internet.
If one accepts the premise that a tiered internet is a bad thing, one is still left with the question, "What can we do about it?" Let's say that the Government fails to regulate and stop it from occurring.
Are there any alternatives to just sucking it up and dealing with it?
I think the one thing that the telecoms understand is money. If companies that embraced the tiered internet were to find themselves cut off from the rest of the internet, they'd have lots of very irate customers demanding refunds and no prospects of new customers.
There's two ways that this could be done. The legal method would be through the creation of a Net Neutrality Alliance, which could, if it contained the right members, cut out those not willing to play by net neutrality rules. You want to shape traffic for profit? Fine, we're just going to shape your traffic out of existence.
Since this is not likely to happen, we are left with the illegal method: structural hits on the telecoms internet gateways. Whether these hits are done physically or cyberneticly doesn't make much difference. The point is to disrupt the tiered internet. The risks involved in such an enterprise are huge. One could go away for a very long time if caught. I'm not certain that there are people with expertise that are willing to take the risk. Maybe the Russian spammers?
In your examples, finding of guilt and meting out of punishment should be handled by schools, and not by the police and courts?
What's ironic is that you go on to accuse someone of using a straw man, after bringing in this ludicrous non-applicable (to the case at hand) examples.
I think he means that it is difficult to get a teaching job if one is convicted of a crime. Poorly phrased, and seems to imply that an academic department would care one way or another about an adult student's behavior off campus and outside of class.
Nobody is forcing you to attend a private school (outside of your family). If you and your family felt that the school was overstepping its, you could decide to attend another school. If you feel that your employer is overstepping its bounds by requiring drug tests, you are free to find employment elsewhere.
However, if you are under the age of 18 in the United States, school attendance is mandatory. If your school or your school district oversteps its authority, you can't just go elsewhere.
But there's a significant difference in what [you] (allegedly) did and what this kid did. If you were involved at all with the posession or sale of marijuana, that is a criminal activity. What this kid did, writing down his vulgar, but non-threatening opinions of the school is not criminal. It is, in fact, constitutionally protected.
1. There is no significant difference. In both cases, the school is overstepping its bounds, involving itself in matters way beyond its purview.
1.a A rumor of criminal activity isn't sufficient for criminal conviction in a court of law. Why should it be sufficient for a school?
2. The Right to Party is protected by the Constitution. Please refer to the famous case Beastie Boys v. Your Mom, in which the Supreme Court ruled that your mom does not have the right to throw away your best porno mag.
And where was his laywer when he was being deposed?
Sitting next to him, I imagine.
Initially, on first reading, I believed the guy and felt sympathetic. But there are too many omissions, to much he has not said. He's not being straightforward. And if he's not being straightforward, he's trying to conceal something from the reader (us). Indeed, one must read between the lines to discover that he is suing the class action law firm! Why couldn't he be upfront about that, and tell us on what grounds he is suing? Again, this makes me wonder what he's not telling us.
How could you tell he was from Canada?
Yeah, and it's really not clear on what grounds he is suing them. Not everything here is as it seems.
The Grand Old Party? I don't think they're waiting for the key logger. They went ahead and started with what they had.
Try looking at it from a different anger.
It's hard to hate a troll that makes me laugh. =)
The plain black one is going to be $150 more, and will be part of the lesser known $250 Laptop Initiative.
I'm not sure what it is that you expected Steve Jobs to do in this case. Open source OS X so that would be compatible?
Face it, you're letting your enjoyment of tormenting mac fanatics (which is commendable most of the time) get in the way of your grasp of reality.
There's plenty you can needle us Mac users about without spinning facts like a GOP drone.
I commend you on your creation and use of this straw man, (that "Diversity" is the end all and be all for information security). Then, like a soda virtuoso soda jerk putting a cherry atop some frozen confection, you deftly place a car analogy upon the crown of your straw man. I don't think anyone (that has any intelligence) is arguing that a diverse computing environment is going to solve all computer problerms.
Incidentally, using your freeway analogy, what would happen if one day, without warning, there simply was not enough gasoline? Gasoline powered vehicles would not function, and unless there were vehicles capable of running on alternative power sources, transportation in any meaningful sense would just not happen. The more alternatives there are to gasoline engines in actual use, the less impact such a sudden loss of gasoline motive power would have.
Does that rough analogy clue you in as to what the conversation is really about?
I wonder what they'll do for security. I'd hate to come home from a run and find out my shoes had been rooted.
The smart thing about that is they're keeping their hardware lean and low cost while at the same time not limiting the customer's choices. Something as simple as adding a USB port instead of using an internal HD lowers costs while increasing flexibility. Sure, this means the customer will need to buy a USB HD (if he doesn't already have one on hand), but not all customers will really need or want one.
I grew up in a barren waste, and if there's one thing I can't stand, it those farmers and ranchers who think they're superior just because their land is arable or has grazable acreage. Walking around with their noses in the air, acting all high and mighty because they can afford a pair of overalls or shit-kicking boots. I hate 'em!
I'm not in the habit of helping along the next generation of script kiddies. If you're smart enough to use the information responsibly, you're also smart enough to figure it out on your own.
Beyond that, I've no interest in further enlightening you.
Translation: I'm so full of shit, if you pumped me in the ass a few times, you'd swear I was a stinky brown pasta machine.
Seriously, that sort of "mysterious" BS might fly on your AOL chat rooms, but it's not going to fly on slashdot, even if slashdot has gone downhill the past few years.
Your old grandma just needs something that works, not something that takes an associates degree from CalTech to use!
I just wanted to note that Cal Tech only offers an associates degree (AA) in Cosmetology, not in Computer Science. I have a friend that studied robot manicures there.