I didn't threaten anyone. I simply expressed the level of regard that I have for scumbags such as this, and what I consider an appropriate response. I do hope the guy who got his life screwed up takes care of the guy though. Be nice to read a follow up about how he got run over in a hit and run and didn't survive.
Yeah, because trying to find a renter for your spare room or sublet apartment is illegal and immoral. The scam works because they pretend to be a student enrolled in university and ask you to forward the balance of the rubber cheque their "parents" wrote to some third party to pay for books or furniture or some other sort of fee.
That aside, the guy in question here is a victim of fraud. He responded to someone who put forth that they were a woman looking for a man, except the whole thing was fraudulent, like a sting operation being conducted by someone who has no authority to do so.
It doesn't matter that he was revealed to be looking for sex. What matters is that he was suckered into having his dirty laundry aired in public while those who would pass judgment on him have their skeletons comfortably locked away in the closet.
As for the malicious asshole who likes to pretend he's a woman and shame people for recreation, well, he belongs in a shallow grave. He's malicious, and a coward, and a liar, and he screws peoples lives up for sport. I'd quite happily shoot him in the head with my own hand and go back to eating my lunch.
Really? I've bought and sold legit stuff on Craigslist. A lot easier than dealing with ebay.
Well, I've known several people to try to use it. All were approached exclusively by cash-cheque-forward-money-scammers, and one got burned for almost a grand. None of them got approached by a single legitimate person.
The only venue in which I've heard of anyone having success with Craigslist is anonymous forums. Like this one. Not knowing anything about who you are, it's just as likely that you personally rip people off and want to keep the money train rolling as it is that you legitimately use the service. Your referral, therefore, means nothing.
I hope someone breaks his fucking skull. Yet another argument against the continued existence of Craigslist. It's nothing but fraud, fraud and more fraud, and a long , long line of people who get conned.
Science is no more true than religion. They are both flawed perspectives that have proven useful, which is why continue to exist. But none of it is the real truth. They're like tools in a toolbox, and you grab for them when you've got a problem to solve, and sometimes they don't work, so you try to improve them so they will work, then use em for a purpose and stick em back in the toolbox for later. That's it, that's all.
I would recommend that you recognize that the data you are looking for is not available from any benchmark suite that is trustworthy, and accept that you will remain ignorant of the truth of the matter regardless of if you use benchmarking software or not.
Ok then, point me to an open source benchmarking program that's as complete, and I'll use it.
Might it just be that they got the software done as cheaply as possible, marked it as ready for release as soon as they could, and never bothered to fix what was obviously a glaring flaw?
Anyway, as an open source developer myself I don't really buy this 'open source will always be better' deal. It can only be better if the project is fortunate enough to attract quality coders and designers. There are a lot more open source programs then there are highly skilled programmers willing and able to work on them.
What a stupid statement. You're like a guy with a smoke detector, who has been told by 50 different people that it doesn't actually detect smoke. To which you reply, "Well, you show me a smoke detector that works and I'll use it, but until then, I'm trusting my life to this one."
It doesn't have to be complicated. I can see a business case for a few large game developers to collaborate on creating a modular open source test suite that would allow a user to load, run and score game-based benchmarks. The modules themselves wouldn't have to be open source for it to be effective in gauging the performance of this game on this hardware. Then, if Intel pays the publisher a fortune to make this game run faster on their hardware than the others, that wouldn't corrupt the integrity of the test, just the game.
Moral of the story is, when you're dealing with code like this, where it has the capacity to influence who receives billions of dollars and who doesn't, well, you can't trust it if it's closed source and not subject to public scrutiny.
Closed source test suites cannot be trusted, shouldn't even be considered by potential purchasers, and have been misleading the public for years and years. This is mute evidence to the fact.
The laws are corrupt and evil. The cops know this better than most. Yet, they continue to be cops. Therefore, every cop is a bad person. Not a bad officer. A bad person.
Both of your articles relate to people being framed. Transparency makes framing people harder, while ignorance makes it easier. Therefore, your articles support my position.
No, it doesn't. I don't give a shit about the government. I want to remain informed, and I do not have enough respect for any of you to hide who and what I am for the sake of your sensibilities, therefore I do not support systematically maintaining your own privacy at the price of my own ignorance. Now, I'm not going to hang my details on a flagpole while you retain the capacity to act in systematically maintained obscurity, but that doesn't mean I don't support stripping my own privacy away at the same time that yours is stripped away. Some might think that hypocritical, I consider it pragmatic.
Personally, I hate that I can't type in a URL, scroll down to the script I'm working on, select it, hit backspace twice and change the value of a parameter to another parameter and hit enter.
I don't like having to read a garish pile of crap, I don't like having the webpage entitled "Gangbang Sluts" I was looking at the night before coming up in the search results the next morning while my kid is there, I just want to see an autocomplete of URLs I've typed before so I can hit down arrow with my pinkie a couple of times and get to the one I want.
This should have been implemented as another option in the search bar. That's what it is, after all, a non-deterministic search of things completely unrelated to the URL. It's not like Firefox users have a hard time using the search bar, and it would have been much better to give more prominence to that bar and leave the location bar alone.
This isn't a thesis proposal. It's a forum for idle chitchat. Do your own fucking research if you're interested, people come on here during brain breaks at work, they're not obligated to cite references for everything they say. Honestly, if you can't tell just from reading the threads this article inspired that there are a large number of people who don't like it, you're fucking thick in the head.
The most useful part of Awesomebar is being able to type "Firefox 3.1" or "3.1 alpha" or "shire" and have this Slashdot story in the top few items. Without the Awesomebar, you'd have to look through the titles and somehow remember that this story was on 'tech.slashdot.org'. This is more useful on forums that insist on long page titles so you can't see the thread's title in the old bar's summary, or even forums that don't include the title at all.
Right. Because typing "Firefox 3.1" in the search box on the history sidebar doesn't work?
It's all about control, monkey boy. You can encrust your cage with rubies and diamonds and put a full bar in it, I'm still not going to live there. Same thing with iEverythingElse. I'd sooner whistle to myself.
I feel the same way. But it looks like they've made an effort:
If you prefer the results to always restrict to history and match only in the URL, you can go to about:config and change the corresponding preferences to nothing (edit the value and delete the special character). This way you can always be only searching your visited history and not worry about matching in the title.
The Javascript Query Selectors looks very interesting... I could really use that for unit testing.
The "border image" stuff has been a long time coming too... when I think of how many unnecessary nested tables I've had to build just because some suit wanted rounded corners of a certain color on everything, it makes me want to puke.
What makes your comment really funny is, the Commodore didn't use it's CPU for everything and connect to dumb IO devices. It had a good deal more intelligence in it's various components, keeping the load on the CPU low in the same way SCSI drives don't tax the CPU like ATA does. Which is how humans work... most data doesn't ever make it to the brain, but is pre-filtered by our organs, and most complex co-ordination exhibited by our bodies is not directly orchestrated by our brain, but through various biological dumb circuits.
The Commodore 64 had more in common with how humans work than modern computers do. I expect that once we begin grappling with the "avalanche of cores" problem in a meaningful way, modern computers will begin to be programmed in a fashion more reminiscent of how biological systems work.
The days of Internet freedom are quite sadly coming to an end with these international movements toward information totalitarianism, unless the geeks of the world are able to effectively unite and push back.
Local renewable energy, Wireless mesh networks and RepRaps are a good place to start. It is really more about walking away than it is about pushing back. If all you do is protest and make demands based on the rights you feel entitled to, they own your soul. If you render these centralized industries irrelevant, they die of neglect.
Can/. think of anyone who would be better suited to the role?
Me. My sideburns are at least 4 inches longer than Hugh Jackmans.
Funny, found out recently, when I interviewed for this position, my manager emailed the whole office to tell them that Wolverine was in the office applying for a job. I remember wondering at the time why everyone was looking my way...
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I didn't threaten anyone. I simply expressed the level of regard that I have for scumbags such as this, and what I consider an appropriate response. I do hope the guy who got his life screwed up takes care of the guy though. Be nice to read a follow up about how he got run over in a hit and run and didn't survive.
Yeah, because trying to find a renter for your spare room or sublet apartment is illegal and immoral. The scam works because they pretend to be a student enrolled in university and ask you to forward the balance of the rubber cheque their "parents" wrote to some third party to pay for books or furniture or some other sort of fee.
That aside, the guy in question here is a victim of fraud. He responded to someone who put forth that they were a woman looking for a man, except the whole thing was fraudulent, like a sting operation being conducted by someone who has no authority to do so.
It doesn't matter that he was revealed to be looking for sex. What matters is that he was suckered into having his dirty laundry aired in public while those who would pass judgment on him have their skeletons comfortably locked away in the closet.
As for the malicious asshole who likes to pretend he's a woman and shame people for recreation, well, he belongs in a shallow grave. He's malicious, and a coward, and a liar, and he screws peoples lives up for sport. I'd quite happily shoot him in the head with my own hand and go back to eating my lunch.
Really? I've bought and sold legit stuff on Craigslist. A lot easier than dealing with ebay.
Well, I've known several people to try to use it. All were approached exclusively by cash-cheque-forward-money-scammers, and one got burned for almost a grand. None of them got approached by a single legitimate person.
The only venue in which I've heard of anyone having success with Craigslist is anonymous forums. Like this one. Not knowing anything about who you are, it's just as likely that you personally rip people off and want to keep the money train rolling as it is that you legitimately use the service. Your referral, therefore, means nothing.
I hope someone breaks his fucking skull. Yet another argument against the continued existence of Craigslist. It's nothing but fraud, fraud and more fraud, and a long , long line of people who get conned.
Science is no more true than religion. They are both flawed perspectives that have proven useful, which is why continue to exist. But none of it is the real truth. They're like tools in a toolbox, and you grab for them when you've got a problem to solve, and sometimes they don't work, so you try to improve them so they will work, then use em for a purpose and stick em back in the toolbox for later. That's it, that's all.
It does use RPM.
Ewhhh...
I would recommend that you recognize that the data you are looking for is not available from any benchmark suite that is trustworthy, and accept that you will remain ignorant of the truth of the matter regardless of if you use benchmarking software or not.
Ok then, point me to an open source benchmarking program that's as complete, and I'll use it.
Might it just be that they got the software done as cheaply as possible, marked it as ready for release as soon as they could, and never bothered to fix what was obviously a glaring flaw?
Anyway, as an open source developer myself I don't really buy this 'open source will always be better' deal. It can only be better if the project is fortunate enough to attract quality coders and designers. There are a lot more open source programs then there are highly skilled programmers willing and able to work on them.
What a stupid statement. You're like a guy with a smoke detector, who has been told by 50 different people that it doesn't actually detect smoke. To which you reply, "Well, you show me a smoke detector that works and I'll use it, but until then, I'm trusting my life to this one."
It doesn't have to be complicated. I can see a business case for a few large game developers to collaborate on creating a modular open source test suite that would allow a user to load, run and score game-based benchmarks. The modules themselves wouldn't have to be open source for it to be effective in gauging the performance of this game on this hardware. Then, if Intel pays the publisher a fortune to make this game run faster on their hardware than the others, that wouldn't corrupt the integrity of the test, just the game.
Moral of the story is, when you're dealing with code like this, where it has the capacity to influence who receives billions of dollars and who doesn't, well, you can't trust it if it's closed source and not subject to public scrutiny.
Closed source test suites cannot be trusted, shouldn't even be considered by potential purchasers, and have been misleading the public for years and years. This is mute evidence to the fact.
The laws are corrupt and evil. The cops know this better than most. Yet, they continue to be cops. Therefore, every cop is a bad person. Not a bad officer. A bad person.
Both of your articles relate to people being framed. Transparency makes framing people harder, while ignorance makes it easier. Therefore, your articles support my position.
No, it doesn't. I don't give a shit about the government. I want to remain informed, and I do not have enough respect for any of you to hide who and what I am for the sake of your sensibilities, therefore I do not support systematically maintaining your own privacy at the price of my own ignorance. Now, I'm not going to hang my details on a flagpole while you retain the capacity to act in systematically maintained obscurity, but that doesn't mean I don't support stripping my own privacy away at the same time that yours is stripped away. Some might think that hypocritical, I consider it pragmatic.
If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. If you've something to hide, you better hide it well.
Personally, I hate that I can't type in a URL, scroll down to the script I'm working on, select it, hit backspace twice and change the value of a parameter to another parameter and hit enter.
I don't like having to read a garish pile of crap, I don't like having the webpage entitled "Gangbang Sluts" I was looking at the night before coming up in the search results the next morning while my kid is there, I just want to see an autocomplete of URLs I've typed before so I can hit down arrow with my pinkie a couple of times and get to the one I want.
This should have been implemented as another option in the search bar. That's what it is, after all, a non-deterministic search of things completely unrelated to the URL. It's not like Firefox users have a hard time using the search bar, and it would have been much better to give more prominence to that bar and leave the location bar alone.
In my opinion.
I see this a lot on Slashdot, and I wonder... where do you keep your money?
I don't keep my money in a safety deposit box because that would be against the rules.
a large part of which does not like this behavior
Reference, please.
This isn't a thesis proposal. It's a forum for idle chitchat. Do your own fucking research if you're interested, people come on here during brain breaks at work, they're not obligated to cite references for everything they say. Honestly, if you can't tell just from reading the threads this article inspired that there are a large number of people who don't like it, you're fucking thick in the head.
The most useful part of Awesomebar is being able to type "Firefox 3.1" or "3.1 alpha" or "shire" and have this Slashdot story in the top few items. Without the Awesomebar, you'd have to look through the titles and somehow remember that this story was on 'tech.slashdot.org'. This is more useful on forums that insist on long page titles so you can't see the thread's title in the old bar's summary, or even forums that don't include the title at all.
Right. Because typing "Firefox 3.1" in the search box on the history sidebar doesn't work?
It's all about control, monkey boy. You can encrust your cage with rubies and diamonds and put a full bar in it, I'm still not going to live there. Same thing with iEverythingElse. I'd sooner whistle to myself.
I feel the same way. But it looks like they've made an effort:
If you prefer the results to always restrict to history and match only in the URL, you can go to about:config and change the corresponding preferences to nothing (edit the value and delete the special character). This way you can always be only searching your visited history and not worry about matching in the title.
The Javascript Query Selectors looks very interesting... I could really use that for unit testing.
The "border image" stuff has been a long time coming too... when I think of how many unnecessary nested tables I've had to build just because some suit wanted rounded corners of a certain color on everything, it makes me want to puke.
What makes your comment really funny is, the Commodore didn't use it's CPU for everything and connect to dumb IO devices. It had a good deal more intelligence in it's various components, keeping the load on the CPU low in the same way SCSI drives don't tax the CPU like ATA does. Which is how humans work... most data doesn't ever make it to the brain, but is pre-filtered by our organs, and most complex co-ordination exhibited by our bodies is not directly orchestrated by our brain, but through various biological dumb circuits.
The Commodore 64 had more in common with how humans work than modern computers do. I expect that once we begin grappling with the "avalanche of cores" problem in a meaningful way, modern computers will begin to be programmed in a fashion more reminiscent of how biological systems work.
The days of Internet freedom are quite sadly coming to an end with these international movements toward information totalitarianism, unless the geeks of the world are able to effectively unite and push back.
Local renewable energy, Wireless mesh networks and RepRaps are a good place to start. It is really more about walking away than it is about pushing back. If all you do is protest and make demands based on the rights you feel entitled to, they own your soul. If you render these centralized industries irrelevant, they die of neglect.
I don't know about you, but after a dozen doubles on the rocks the night before, I'm like a play doh machine with a burning ring of fire.
Yeah, but, if you're a slashdot reader, chances are good Hugh Jackman would kick your ass in a real fight, so I'd say he's more suited to the role.
Whatever... his qualifications are "plays pretend well" and "takes direction well". Hardly indicative of an alpha male. I'd kick his ass.
Can /. think of anyone who would be better suited to the role?
Me. My sideburns are at least 4 inches longer than Hugh Jackmans.
Funny, found out recently, when I interviewed for this position, my manager emailed the whole office to tell them that Wolverine was in the office applying for a job. I remember wondering at the time why everyone was looking my way...