The FCC will treat it like TV/Radio, and make sure that nothing can exist but the same type of pasteurized commercial crap which passes for television.
Why don't they filter "obscene" content from the telephone system? How is the concept of the internet as a two way medium for communications to grasp?
I remember reading the Dragonriders of Pern series and having an issue with the locals of planet Pern referring to digging/planting in the "earth".
I theorized maybe the inhabitants were long descendant from Earth, and the word stuck... maybe if I read all the books I'd find out, though I'm sure one of you nerds could fill me in.
They exist on all the other MS-originated technologies I listed, too.
It isn't about patents, copyright, copyleft, GNU, or any such concept.
It's simply everyday sycophants doing what they do best, feigning outrage for something they don't even understand. Someone on some stupid forum, maybe this one, set the trend that Mono is a bad thing(tm), and god fucking forbid anyone draw their own conclusions, because that would requiring some knowledge - expertise even - in the subject matter at hand, and frankly, that's a lot like work.
There is no "windows fingerprint"..Net is free to implement, the fact that microsoft originally wrote the spec should mean fucking nothing.
Linux dorks run Samba, don't they? They have no problem with a FOSS rdp client. They have no problem with FAT filesystems on their thumb drives, or burning CD's with Joliet extensions. And hey, what would a linux desktop be without Microsofts font pack for the web?
So why the fuck would they get their philosophical panties in a bunch over mono?
Oh yeah, I forgot. It's because they aren't real geeks, let alone coders, and they don't know what the.Net framework even is. If they weren't so deeply involved in the FOSS vs MSFT movement, they'd be on gamefaqs posting about how superior the PS3 port of GTA4 is to the EVIL COPRORATE XBLOCKS 3-SHITTXTY OMG LOL THE CONTROLLAR IS BIG! If only they could open two browser windows on their fancy new OLPC.
Gotta pay to play. If you want smaller, you are in league with all those homebrew hacks you found on google.
I run air through a duct loop through the cellar I set up, a sort of homebrew geothermal heat exchanger, and the cooling effect is actually fairly dramatic. So there's always stuff like that.
People don't commute in 500hp cars, we race them at the drag strip or on circuits or just go out for a cruise, wrench on them in the driveway and garage, and love them because we love the technology.
People don't need quad core quad sli quad whatever else mega-computing rigs, burning away precious natural resources growing their edick with 3d benchmarks either. But some dorks love putting them together.
I'm sick of goofballs who don't know cars, and who openly hate cars, telling me what I need to drive, and how it should be designed, and what products people should be able to market. I have a great need for a car that goes 0-60 in under 10 seconds, you try to merge on the DC beltway in a 1989 geo metro every morning for a week and see how it works out.
And for the record, the old beetles were clunky shitwagons prone to overheating on long road trips due to their air cooled design. They may have been acceptable in tightly packed european communities, but they were terrible highway cars.
Also note for the record Click and Clack are dickweed greens.
Just like drugs, counterfeit goods, and unlicensed freon.
It is the border agents job to prevent this stuff from coming into the country. Busting a guy at point-of-entry for child porn isn't stepping outside their bounds whatsoever. It's precisely why we have border security in the first place.
And who in their right mind ever thought you had a right to privacy when border crossing?
Anything you hand-carry is subject to search. They will sift through your underwear, open and inspect your deoderant container, they even pulled the inserts out of my shoes.
Here's a scary thought: THEY CAN READ YOUR DIARY TOO! even if you write "TOP SECRET! NO BOYS ALLOWED" on the cover.
There's plenty of things to get upset about. This isn't one of them.
You know, you're right. I should be more supportive of a social policy in which the federal government explicitly declares war on myself, my friends, and 75% of the population, according to recent data.
Because, hey, vague bullshit war-on-concept are about the only types of wars that America is equipped to fight, these days.
All the talk of terraforming mars is hot air, unless somebody is going to clue me in on how we're going to magically make mars geologically active again, so it would have a magnetosphere to protect us from the suns radiation. Short of that, nothing can live on the surface, I don't care how many farts you pipe up there.
The correlation between drug use and crime has been pretty well established... AS A SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY.
Jail someone for 5-10 years for a non-violent offense (possession of weed), and yeah, you created a brand new *real* criminal.
And his/her kid just grew up without a father/mother, so now you have a single parent situation, maybe even in foster care - and that's always a leg up. But hey, since it's largely minorities (blacks) drawing these big sentences, it gives the white man (me) cause to point at all the fatherless black kids and say "SEE WHAT DEGENERATES THEY ARE, THEY DON'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR KIDS".
Maybe you're one of these folks who thinks the word "Correction", as in Department of Corrections, means something. It most certainly does not. They have never, ever, corrected anything.
Then you have a disabilities act which specifically excludes drug addiction, so that drug rehab clinics are not operated by doctors. This is important, because it means anyone seeking treatment has no right to confidentiality. The DEA regularly plants agents in group therapy sessions, to gather more "intel". The end result?
Seeking treatment is not only not in your own best legal interest, it makes you a de facto SNITCH/NARC/STOOLY/RAT/MURDER VICTIM.
Don't even get me started about civil forfeiture.
But hey, the world is safer for folks like you, right? Oh, and THE CHILDREN. I for one am glad to know that todays teens won't be exposed to evil, evil marijuana. After 30 years of this "war", we must have the enemy just about on the ropes, right?
Anyhoo, almost happy hour, time to go chug a few beers before I drive home.
Yet, I noticed this in real life, when running bittorrent, and browsing the web. I was getting a ton of "page has been reset" errors, I shut down the torrents, and the web was fine.
I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out of the problem was in the IP stack, my router, or what.. Apparently it's Comcast itself. I don't see how this would happen if they were tracking connection state. It seems they're just counting connection attempts per second.
This isn't just stopping syn floods, this is punishing users who make too many connections, which I guess is the new moving target.
I'm glad we have folks like you to white knight poor defenseless Google, but the fact is that these numbers people sue for are supposed to be PUNITIVE, not COMPENSATORY. They are supposed to punish. To punish Google, you sue for as much as possible to get publicity, to get the CEO to fucking notice that not everybody is signed up for his brave new world.
Google's agents, to take the photos they did, had to trespass. Even though this is a minor offense, it is still a crime, and do we really want corporations to be able to ignore laws they consider beneath them financially?
SMT processors of this type are only useful for accelerating a certain type of problem set, and useless for most general computing.
We've had SIMD multicore PC's forever, and they're useless as desktops. I write this from a quad xeon machine, repurposed as my dev box, as CPU1 grinds away at about 75% all day long, the rest idle. It's been like that for more than a decade, it'll be like that until MIMD hits the street with a whole new paradigm of programming languages behind it - a handful of C compiler #pragma directives from intel isn't going to make this work.
It's not simply a matter of "coders don't know how to do it." It's a matter of these multi-core "general purpose" CPUs are only really useful for a fairly limited set of specific problems.
Eg; writing a game engine with a video thread, audio thread and an input thread still leaves 13 cores idle. You really cant thread those much farther (the ridiculously parallel problem of rendering is handled by the GPU).
Simply starting processes on different procs doesn't help all that much, since they all fight over memory and I/O time. The point of diminishing returns is reached fairly quickly.
But hey, if all you do is run Folding@home so you can compare your e-cock with the other kids on hardextremeoverclockermegahackers.com, well I have some good news!
As for me, I'm seeing AMD's multiple specific purpose core approach as being more viable, as far as actually making my next desktop computer perform faster.
Savain says it best at rebelscience.org: "Even after decades of research and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on making multithreaded programming easier, threaded applications are still a pain in the ass to write."
Please, please people, see through this old wives tale about paper "wasting trees", for the sake of combating intellectual dishonesty. It is a worthy fight.
Paper is farmed. Trees are planted based on projected demand. If you want more trees, use more paper.
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Death threats aren't clever or funny.
It's dipshitted yap like yours that puts weight behind bills like this.
Well fucking la-de-da for you... Maybe we should all move back in with our moms, and get a paper route.
For by riding my bicycle, I am now one of the elite, the fit and more patriotic than the car or bus-bound commuters around me.
No, you're just another whiny pretentious jackass with no sense of reality, and no useful advice.
Pro Tip: WE'VE ALREADY FUCKING HEARD OF BICYCLES, STUPID.
The FCC will treat it like TV/Radio, and make sure that nothing can exist but the same type of pasteurized commercial crap which passes for television.
Why don't they filter "obscene" content from the telephone system? How is the concept of the internet as a two way medium for communications to grasp?
I remember reading the Dragonriders of Pern series and having an issue with the locals of planet Pern referring to digging/planting in the "earth".
I theorized maybe the inhabitants were long descendant from Earth, and the word stuck... maybe if I read all the books I'd find out, though I'm sure one of you nerds could fill me in.
They exist on all the other MS-originated technologies I listed, too.
It isn't about patents, copyright, copyleft, GNU, or any such concept.
It's simply everyday sycophants doing what they do best, feigning outrage for something they don't even understand. Someone on some stupid forum, maybe this one, set the trend that Mono is a bad thing(tm), and god fucking forbid anyone draw their own conclusions, because that would requiring some knowledge - expertise even - in the subject matter at hand, and frankly, that's a lot like work.
There is no "windows fingerprint". .Net is free to implement, the fact that microsoft originally wrote the spec should mean fucking nothing.
.Net framework even is. If they weren't so deeply involved in the FOSS vs MSFT movement, they'd be on gamefaqs posting about how superior the PS3 port of GTA4 is to the EVIL COPRORATE XBLOCKS 3-SHITTXTY OMG LOL THE CONTROLLAR IS BIG! If only they could open two browser windows on their fancy new OLPC.
Linux dorks run Samba, don't they? They have no problem with a FOSS rdp client. They have no problem with FAT filesystems on their thumb drives, or burning CD's with Joliet extensions. And hey, what would a linux desktop be without Microsofts font pack for the web?
So why the fuck would they get their philosophical panties in a bunch over mono?
Oh yeah, I forgot. It's because they aren't real geeks, let alone coders, and they don't know what the
Guess you missed the news about the guessable passwords.
All it takes is one bad/ignorant/rogue package manager, and the whole house of cards can come down.
Remember, the world "rootkit" comes from the *nix world, not the windows one.
as in Coke and Pepsi dividing the market to prevent any real competition from ever emerging.
Gotta pay to play. If you want smaller, you are in league with all those homebrew hacks you found on google.
I run air through a duct loop through the cellar I set up, a sort of homebrew geothermal heat exchanger, and the cooling effect is actually fairly dramatic. So there's always stuff like that.
People don't commute in 500hp cars, we race them at the drag strip or on circuits or just go out for a cruise, wrench on them in the driveway and garage, and love them because we love the technology.
People don't need quad core quad sli quad whatever else mega-computing rigs, burning away precious natural resources growing their edick with 3d benchmarks either. But some dorks love putting them together.
I'm sick of goofballs who don't know cars, and who openly hate cars, telling me what I need to drive, and how it should be designed, and what products people should be able to market. I have a great need for a car that goes 0-60 in under 10 seconds, you try to merge on the DC beltway in a 1989 geo metro every morning for a week and see how it works out.
And for the record, the old beetles were clunky shitwagons prone to overheating on long road trips due to their air cooled design. They may have been acceptable in tightly packed european communities, but they were terrible highway cars.
Also note for the record Click and Clack are dickweed greens.
Anybody who's worked with it will agree.
It's really great when it comes to irretrievably losing entire volumes of data. Not so great at anything else.
Hans Reiser: blowhard, murderer, and half-assed coder.
I disagree, you are a sicko nazi who likes to torture prepubescent boys before raping them!
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they gots emailz now yo
where u at dawg!
Just like drugs, counterfeit goods, and unlicensed freon.
It is the border agents job to prevent this stuff from coming into the country. Busting a guy at point-of-entry for child porn isn't stepping outside their bounds whatsoever. It's precisely why we have border security in the first place.
And who in their right mind ever thought you had a right to privacy when border crossing?
Anything you hand-carry is subject to search. They will sift through your underwear, open and inspect your deoderant container, they even pulled the inserts out of my shoes.
Here's a scary thought: THEY CAN READ YOUR DIARY TOO! even if you write "TOP SECRET! NO BOYS ALLOWED" on the cover.
There's plenty of things to get upset about. This isn't one of them.
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You know, you're right. I should be more supportive of a social policy in which the federal government explicitly declares war on myself, my friends, and 75% of the population, according to recent data.
Because, hey, vague bullshit war-on-concept are about the only types of wars that America is equipped to fight, these days.
All the talk of terraforming mars is hot air, unless somebody is going to clue me in on how we're going to magically make mars geologically active again, so it would have a magnetosphere to protect us from the suns radiation. Short of that, nothing can live on the surface, I don't care how many farts you pipe up there.
The correlation between drug use and crime has been pretty well established ... AS A SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY.
Jail someone for 5-10 years for a non-violent offense (possession of weed), and yeah, you created a brand new *real* criminal.
And his/her kid just grew up without a father/mother, so now you have a single parent situation, maybe even in foster care - and that's always a leg up. But hey, since it's largely minorities (blacks) drawing these big sentences, it gives the white man (me) cause to point at all the fatherless black kids and say "SEE WHAT DEGENERATES THEY ARE, THEY DON'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR KIDS".
Maybe you're one of these folks who thinks the word "Correction", as in Department of Corrections, means something. It most certainly does not. They have never, ever, corrected anything.
Then you have a disabilities act which specifically excludes drug addiction, so that drug rehab clinics are not operated by doctors. This is important, because it means anyone seeking treatment has no right to confidentiality. The DEA regularly plants agents in group therapy sessions, to gather more "intel". The end result?
Seeking treatment is not only not in your own best legal interest, it makes you a de facto SNITCH/NARC/STOOLY/RAT/MURDER VICTIM.
Don't even get me started about civil forfeiture.
But hey, the world is safer for folks like you, right? Oh, and THE CHILDREN. I for one am glad to know that todays teens won't be exposed to evil, evil marijuana. After 30 years of this "war", we must have the enemy just about on the ropes, right?
Anyhoo, almost happy hour, time to go chug a few beers before I drive home.
Yes because back then acid rain was the eco-fright du jour, and is caused by all the sulphur from those stinky diesel cars.
Yet, I noticed this in real life, when running bittorrent, and browsing the web. I was getting a ton of "page has been reset" errors, I shut down the torrents, and the web was fine.
I wasted a bunch of time trying to figure out of the problem was in the IP stack, my router, or what.. Apparently it's Comcast itself. I don't see how this would happen if they were tracking connection state. It seems they're just counting connection attempts per second.
This isn't just stopping syn floods, this is punishing users who make too many connections, which I guess is the new moving target.
I'm glad we have folks like you to white knight poor defenseless Google, but the fact is that these numbers people sue for are supposed to be PUNITIVE, not COMPENSATORY. They are supposed to punish. To punish Google, you sue for as much as possible to get publicity, to get the CEO to fucking notice that not everybody is signed up for his brave new world.
Google's agents, to take the photos they did, had to trespass. Even though this is a minor offense, it is still a crime, and do we really want corporations to be able to ignore laws they consider beneath them financially?
SMT processors of this type are only useful for accelerating a certain type of problem set, and useless for most general computing.
We've had SIMD multicore PC's forever, and they're useless as desktops. I write this from a quad xeon machine, repurposed as my dev box, as CPU1 grinds away at about 75% all day long, the rest idle. It's been like that for more than a decade, it'll be like that until MIMD hits the street with a whole new paradigm of programming languages behind it - a handful of C compiler #pragma directives from intel isn't going to make this work.
It's not simply a matter of "coders don't know how to do it." It's a matter of these multi-core "general purpose" CPUs are only really useful for a fairly limited set of specific problems.
Eg; writing a game engine with a video thread, audio thread and an input thread still leaves 13 cores idle. You really cant thread those much farther (the ridiculously parallel problem of rendering is handled by the GPU).
Simply starting processes on different procs doesn't help all that much, since they all fight over memory and I/O time. The point of diminishing returns is reached fairly quickly.
But hey, if all you do is run Folding@home so you can compare your e-cock with the other kids on hardextremeoverclockermegahackers.com, well I have some good news!
As for me, I'm seeing AMD's multiple specific purpose core approach as being more viable, as far as actually making my next desktop computer perform faster.
Savain says it best at rebelscience.org: "Even after decades of research and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on making multithreaded programming easier, threaded applications are still a pain in the ass to write."
Barbie Pink (tm) has been trademarked forever.
This isn't new, there's plenty of precedent, and whether you like it or not, T-Mobile is on the right side of this one.
The term is ridiculously parallelizable, and yes, that is an actual comp sci/math term for a class of problem sets.
Please, please people, see through this old wives tale about paper "wasting trees", for the sake of combating intellectual dishonesty. It is a worthy fight.
Paper is farmed. Trees are planted based on projected demand. If you want more trees, use more paper.