Forcing millions and millions of people to walk barefoot over the same carpet year after year promotes super-accelerated evolution of athlete's foot fungus and has helped spread it throughout the world. TSA is therefore aiding and abetting bio-terrorism, and should be immediately shut down as specified by Patriot Acts 1 and 2.
If you don't want to use GNU/Linux, fine. Don't use it. Also, who gives a rat's ass if the general public uses it or not? I certainly don't. Linux is self-sustaining. There are companies that make enviable incomes maintaining, supporting, and extending it. Young computer scientists cut their teeth developing it. Plenty of people use it, as do plenty of companies. Any company with vast armies of servers would be foolish to use anything other than Linux. In practice, you have to justify why you would use Windows and its huge licensing burden, the absolute opacity of its code (and of the commercial apps you'll most likely be running), and your complete dependence on others for code fixes. An average Linux user probably doesn't fiddle much with the code, but companies running tens or hundreds of thousands of boxes certainly will. Who can wait for months or years to get a bug fixed?
The Linux desktop is fine. It is a subjective choice like any other, but many people use it all day every day with no major problems. We all have apps that only run on Windows or Mac so, oh well, you also have to have a box or two to allow that. Computers are cheap enough these days that most households have two or more computers lying around already anyway. Most likely, even your elderly Aunt Tilley.
This is a dead controversy. Nobody gives two shits about it, except people who have nothing better to do than yak yak yak about pointless topics. The year of the Linux desktop came and went without anyone noticing. It's hard to say when it even was, actually, but it is in the fog of the past.
Unfortunately, you make no useful or interesting point. Arbitrarily changing time zones twice a year is an idiotic pain in the ass. I will complain far and wide, endlessly. It is a dumbass imposition and a throwback to a bygone era. If it is ever gotten rid of, I for one will not miss it.
Because there is no such thing as "real capitalism." "Capitalism" is a theme, an approach, an overarching paradigm. It is not a specific recipe or architecture. Many things can be called Capitalism and yet differ drastically among themselves.
Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of moronic and/or superstitious beliefs regardless of their basis, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, or to cause or encourage others to believe any manner of idiocy, particularly with the specific aim of taking their money.
You realize, of course, that's not true, right? That technology does not exist, nor will it for decades. Are you mocking those poor unfortunates that believe it, or are you one yourself?
Anti-vax parents are voluntarily attempting to remove their children from the gene pool. Pretty barbaric, if you ask me, but in the long term it benefits the herd.
(though the geek in me does wonder how many NSA keyword alarms you have just triggered by that post, and how many more will get triggered by me quoting it)
I get your point, but I suspect you are missing mine. Forget nuclear weapons, they are a red herring in the current discussion. It is a huge stretch of the imagination to expect that "terrorists" can cause a pandemic with virus genetically engineered in a lab. It is far too expensive and there are myriad factors that decelerate pandemics, which is why they are so rare. More to my point, that there is plenty of knowledge already accumulated over several generations, "terrorists" would be better off getting virus samples from several origins in the field (e.g. pig and chicken farms) and crossing them in Third World pig and chicken ranches at random, the more strains mixed in the better. That would eventually yield highly infectious strains by ordinary natural selection. They could then harvest samples from locations where the most people got cross infected and do it again, iterating until they have some suitably nasty specimens. Scientific censorship is a moot point. More than enough information is out there for all sorts of mischief, whether nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC). This "controversy" is plain old propaganda for the purposes of political manipulation, career advancement, and corruption, nothing more. We should stop believing this shit.
Also, don't underestimate the stuff in Chemical Abstracts and related sources.
This "controversy" is largely driven by War on Terror scammers who want to 1) set up a bureaucratic lobbyist-driven police state gravy train, and 2) loot the treasury using War on Terror hype as a pretext, much as they have done with Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran. If you think that it is a new phenomenon to use the results of scientific research for nefarious purposes, or that the only major precedent is nuclear arms proliferation you are quite mistaken. Next time you have a few hours of free time and are near a university chemistry library with a hard-copy of Chemical Abstracts that goes back 100 years or so, I highly recommend browsing through it looking for the nastiest substances you can think of. They're in there, recipes and all.
We really need to stop believing all that horse shit just because some pompous windbag politician says it's true. Scientists, who know the literature, are justifiably reticent to cooperate with that crap unless their political aspirations demand it.
No. It is about the 15 millionth "cyberwar." Ignoring for the moment the significant questions surrounding the dubious term "cyberwar," the internet has been a battleground of malware for decades. This may be a new incident, but it's not new.
If we focus on planets in "the habitable zone," then life is much more likely to be based on C, N, O, etc. than something more exotic (to us) because that's likely to be the prevailing chemistry able to generate "self-reproduction with variations." Many of the other alternatives with Si, liquid methane, or other weirdness is unknown to us because such chemistry is extreme within the context of the habitable zone. Next questions: Is Mars in the habitable zone? Is there enough water, atmosphere, background energy, and other conditions needed to generate sufficient quantity and turnover of organic compounds to sustain self-reproduction with variations?
In a hydrocarbon atmosphere, you can burn oxygen. All our definitions are oriented around our oxygen-based atmosphere. I'm sure we'd call oxygen 'fuel' if we lived in a hydrocarbon atmosphere and oxygen was the scarcer material.
Sheesh. Not many chemists here on slashdot, it seems.
It's amusing how some people still think we went into Iraq because S. Hussein was an evil dictator, or that we helped get rid of M. Khadafi for the same reason. The popular media seem resistant to portray these things for what they are: taking control of Third World petroleum industries. Iran is the last redoubt in the middle east not yet in bed with or controlled by international petroleum mobsters. Venezuela is the last in the western hemisphere, and it is no coincidence at all that H. Chavez is demonized as an evil dictator as well. It is an industrial pattern every bit as stereotyped as any software design pattern, and it works just as well.
Yes, we are headed for another decade of perpetual war for perpetual peace in order that the mobsters who rule the First World can take control of small nations' wealth and resources. For the rubes, it's all about saving the world from Iran's evil dictators having a few nukes. Suckers.
No! That would be a formal admission of guilt. As the poster said above, just stop now and protect your identity. Severe criminal penalties will be dropped on the poor guy if he is caught. If he actually got into the system, he is very definitely guilty of computer crime(s). If the box was in a state other than his, he has a pile more charges on top of that. Just drop it and run away.
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Hear, hear, soldier.
Forcing millions and millions of people to walk barefoot over the same carpet year after year promotes super-accelerated evolution of athlete's foot fungus and has helped spread it throughout the world. TSA is therefore aiding and abetting bio-terrorism, and should be immediately shut down as specified by Patriot Acts 1 and 2.
Hear, hear!
If you don't want to use GNU/Linux, fine. Don't use it. Also, who gives a rat's ass if the general public uses it or not? I certainly don't. Linux is self-sustaining. There are companies that make enviable incomes maintaining, supporting, and extending it. Young computer scientists cut their teeth developing it. Plenty of people use it, as do plenty of companies. Any company with vast armies of servers would be foolish to use anything other than Linux. In practice, you have to justify why you would use Windows and its huge licensing burden, the absolute opacity of its code (and of the commercial apps you'll most likely be running), and your complete dependence on others for code fixes. An average Linux user probably doesn't fiddle much with the code, but companies running tens or hundreds of thousands of boxes certainly will. Who can wait for months or years to get a bug fixed?
The Linux desktop is fine. It is a subjective choice like any other, but many people use it all day every day with no major problems. We all have apps that only run on Windows or Mac so, oh well, you also have to have a box or two to allow that. Computers are cheap enough these days that most households have two or more computers lying around already anyway. Most likely, even your elderly Aunt Tilley.
This is a dead controversy. Nobody gives two shits about it, except people who have nothing better to do than yak yak yak about pointless topics. The year of the Linux desktop came and went without anyone noticing. It's hard to say when it even was, actually, but it is in the fog of the past.
Unfortunately, you make no useful or interesting point. Arbitrarily changing time zones twice a year is an idiotic pain in the ass. I will complain far and wide, endlessly. It is a dumbass imposition and a throwback to a bygone era. If it is ever gotten rid of, I for one will not miss it.
Well, he did some good stuff that compensates for it.
Because there is no such thing as "real capitalism." "Capitalism" is a theme, an approach, an overarching paradigm. It is not a specific recipe or architecture. Many things can be called Capitalism and yet differ drastically among themselves.
And in the US (I've updated it a bit):
Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of moronic and/or superstitious beliefs regardless of their basis, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, or to cause or encourage others to believe any manner of idiocy, particularly with the specific aim of taking their money.
You realize, of course, that's not true, right? That technology does not exist, nor will it for decades. Are you mocking those poor unfortunates that believe it, or are you one yourself?
Eventually, holes will not be necessary. Better SQUIDS + cuda = mind reading from a distance. By 2020 0r 2030 at the latest, I would conjecture.
Anti-vax parents are voluntarily attempting to remove their children from the gene pool. Pretty barbaric, if you ask me, but in the long term it benefits the herd.
Obviously your notion of "meds" is pretty hazy.
The sort of moron who is the subject of the article raises his hand. Thanks, AC. That's what you guys are for.
Are you trying to get Slashdot censored? ~
(though the geek in me does wonder how many NSA keyword alarms you have just triggered by that post, and how many more will get triggered by me quoting it)
Now that's disturbing.
I get your point, but I suspect you are missing mine. Forget nuclear weapons, they are a red herring in the current discussion. It is a huge stretch of the imagination to expect that "terrorists" can cause a pandemic with virus genetically engineered in a lab. It is far too expensive and there are myriad factors that decelerate pandemics, which is why they are so rare. More to my point, that there is plenty of knowledge already accumulated over several generations, "terrorists" would be better off getting virus samples from several origins in the field (e.g. pig and chicken farms) and crossing them in Third World pig and chicken ranches at random, the more strains mixed in the better. That would eventually yield highly infectious strains by ordinary natural selection. They could then harvest samples from locations where the most people got cross infected and do it again, iterating until they have some suitably nasty specimens. Scientific censorship is a moot point. More than enough information is out there for all sorts of mischief, whether nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC). This "controversy" is plain old propaganda for the purposes of political manipulation, career advancement, and corruption, nothing more. We should stop believing this shit.
Also, don't underestimate the stuff in Chemical Abstracts and related sources.
This "controversy" is largely driven by War on Terror scammers who want to 1) set up a bureaucratic lobbyist-driven police state gravy train, and 2) loot the treasury using War on Terror hype as a pretext, much as they have done with Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran. If you think that it is a new phenomenon to use the results of scientific research for nefarious purposes, or that the only major precedent is nuclear arms proliferation you are quite mistaken. Next time you have a few hours of free time and are near a university chemistry library with a hard-copy of Chemical Abstracts that goes back 100 years or so, I highly recommend browsing through it looking for the nastiest substances you can think of. They're in there, recipes and all.
We really need to stop believing all that horse shit just because some pompous windbag politician says it's true. Scientists, who know the literature, are justifiably reticent to cooperate with that crap unless their political aspirations demand it.
I'm sure their on it. It'll give some poor chemical engineer schmuck in Iran a few more minutes to find a better hiding place.
No. It is about the 15 millionth "cyberwar." Ignoring for the moment the significant questions surrounding the dubious term "cyberwar," the internet has been a battleground of malware for decades. This may be a new incident, but it's not new.
What? What kind of judge doesn't impose ex recto damages? What planet is he from?
If we focus on planets in "the habitable zone," then life is much more likely to be based on C, N, O, etc. than something more exotic (to us) because that's likely to be the prevailing chemistry able to generate "self-reproduction with variations." Many of the other alternatives with Si, liquid methane, or other weirdness is unknown to us because such chemistry is extreme within the context of the habitable zone. Next questions: Is Mars in the habitable zone? Is there enough water, atmosphere, background energy, and other conditions needed to generate sufficient quantity and turnover of organic compounds to sustain self-reproduction with variations?
Thank you!
In a hydrocarbon atmosphere, you can burn oxygen. All our definitions are oriented around our oxygen-based atmosphere. I'm sure we'd call oxygen 'fuel' if we lived in a hydrocarbon atmosphere and oxygen was the scarcer material.
Sheesh. Not many chemists here on slashdot, it seems.
Oxygen is not the fuel. It is the oxidant to the fuel to release energy.
It's amusing how some people still think we went into Iraq because S. Hussein was an evil dictator, or that we helped get rid of M. Khadafi for the same reason. The popular media seem resistant to portray these things for what they are: taking control of Third World petroleum industries. Iran is the last redoubt in the middle east not yet in bed with or controlled by international petroleum mobsters. Venezuela is the last in the western hemisphere, and it is no coincidence at all that H. Chavez is demonized as an evil dictator as well. It is an industrial pattern every bit as stereotyped as any software design pattern, and it works just as well.
Yes, we are headed for another decade of perpetual war for perpetual peace in order that the mobsters who rule the First World can take control of small nations' wealth and resources. For the rubes, it's all about saving the world from Iran's evil dictators having a few nukes. Suckers.
If you have to "build a business case to improve the quality of your software," you are in deep shit. Don't buy the book, change jobs instead.
No! That would be a formal admission of guilt. As the poster said above, just stop now and protect your identity. Severe criminal penalties will be dropped on the poor guy if he is caught. If he actually got into the system, he is very definitely guilty of computer crime(s). If the box was in a state other than his, he has a pile more charges on top of that. Just drop it and run away.
Who the fuck is this "Noone" guy? Sounds like that dude drinks way too much coffee.