and even supported the bullying and defamation of a Rosetta scientist because of a shirt he wore?
The guns and lingerie tee shirt was not appropriate dress for a globally televised event. Not least because the female engineers and technicians visible in the background were appropriately dressed, which implies a double standard. There are social obligations which come with being the public face of your project.
Seems to me that if the FBI has $25k to offer in reward money, it would be better spent on recovering the stolen cars of people who can barely make ends meet and needed their cars to get to work. Or is that not how these things work?
No, it isn't how these things work,
The most basic distinctions between state and federal jurisdiction escape the geek --- and he never learns and better. The FBI becomes involved on crimes that have a plausible interstate and foreign dimension.
The clunker car you've been driving to work is probably worth more dead than alive.
So you drown it in the lake or set it on fire and file a claim for the insurance. It's a crime, but not a federal case.
TV is almost 100% reality garbage now because most people who still watch "regular" TV aren't all that swift, so the advertisers give them their junk food.
1 Big Bang Theory - Which shouldn't need any introduction here.
3 Empire - Prime time soap opera with a mix of drama and contemporary music - with a Golden Globe and other awards to its credit.
8 NCIS
9 Blue Bloods - NCIS and Blood Bloods both long running police procedurals, a genre that network TV does very well. 10 Sixty Minutes,
The #1 on cable that week was The Walking Dead and #5 The Talking Dead --- and for those of us who have grown weary of the Zombie Apocalypse, the broadcast networks have quite a bit to offer.
The legal subscription services like Groove have 45 million tracks instantly available for streaming or purchase. There will gaps in any one of them, but add Amazon Prime to the mix, YouTube and internet radio and you are pretty well covered. I lost interest in P2P quite some time back. Too much time invested with very little in return.
Disney is using stories and characters that have been in public domain for centuries and if you try to use any of the those properties, they'll sue you into oblivion.
Disney will sue you based on their modern interpretation of these stories and characters. If the Disney version is what you or your kids will remember, it is most likely because the studio is really, really, good at this sort of thing.
This is what irks me about/. Even though Ubuntu is an overall fantastic flavor of Linux, if you read the comments here, you'd get the impression that it's more loathed than a Microsoft product.
The geek isn't comfortable with success when success is defined as adoption by those outside his own community.
You can't ban the so-called 'dark web' because you really can't identify where it is.
Unless, of course, the user or the network can be exposed by other means. The tech isn't as good as the geek thinks it is or its users or administrators can't be trusted. The geek who turns to crime has an unfortunate tendency to show off when things are going well. He needs a bigger audience than the dark net can give him.
For as far back as I can remember, every Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot begins like this --- and it always ends well.
But failure is often more revealing.
I don't have any relations who use Linux and I doubt I could summon a geek out of the woods even if I baited the trap with free beer and one of the gals from Twin Peaks. I began with Windows 95, settled in to stay, and currently run Win 10; if I come across something interesting in F/OSS, I simply download the Windows port.
3) The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has already occurred, and it is Android. 90% of what people use Computers for, can be done on Android (running Linux kernel).
Android builds on the Linux kernel. But it is unmistakably a Google creation (with all the good and bad that comes with that) and not a traditional community-oriented Linux distribution. Android remains focused on the app-oriented mobile world of touch-based UI and the 4 1/2 to 6 inch screen.
I think you misspelled "... to strong-arm OEMs into installing it by default, to the exclusion of all other OSs."
It has been very long time since that has been legal --- and from the beginning anyone could see that the OEMs were crying all the way the bank and that sympathy for them was misplaced.
And maybe he should take a lesson from Apple. You don't have to have 90 percent of the market to be successful.
OSX has impeccable *NIX credentials, a stable and refined UI and a desktop market share 4x that of Linux. (Based on the familiar Net Applications stats)
That said, OSX is not particularly strong on the desktop and it is quite cleat that Apple has essentially conceded substantial shares of that market to Windows.
I suppose code could be considered art. After all Windows has elicited great feelings of despair and anguish from those observing it.
The geek's jokes just write themselves, no need for computer simulation. It would be unkind to suggest that he has had twenty years to stake his claim to the desktop, with next to nothing to show for it, and if that isn't cause for despair, what is?
Sony took away the ability to run GNU/Linux on a Playstation 3.
If you upgraded the firmware.
Which almost everyone did without a second thought.
It was a clever hack buying wholesale lots of the heavily subsidized PS3 to build your high performance computer. Rather than SONY's more expensive commercial grade Cell hardware. But it guaranteed that the Other OS was going away and never coming back.
To get at the research paper itself would cost me a minimum of $36.
It's not clear to me how you build meaningful global stats for a service that is usually promoted here as anonymous. It is also not clear to me how these states relate to the population as a whole.
The ultimate test of a "secret messaging" system is whether people generally feel safe and comfortable using it. The old-time spy hated the gadget or the code book that his handlers claimed could be easily hidden or disguised or disposed of in a pinch. It never quite worked out that way.
The old Mongolian saying that what happens in the jurt, stays in the jurt?
Pinning your hopes on jury nullification is like buying a ticket in the Tri-State Lotto and dreaming about how you'll retire to the life of a billionaire when you win that big cash prize. Your case won't even go to a jury unless there is some remaining factual dispute that gives them room for maneuver.
This is not mathematics, this is a policy decision, an engineering decision by Apple, and change is never more distant than the next firmware upgrade of the phone.
Rules without exceptions tend to fracture under stress. It happens all the time --- and the geek should know better than to bet that the dam will hold no matter what.
Why is a tech site celebrating this woman, because she used a computer at work? WTF, is there a feminist story quota on/. now?
doesn't seem out of place to ask the geek to at least acknowledge the accomplishments of women in architecture and engineering. particularly as expressed in a body of work of such extrordinary audacity and technical sophistication.
WebRTC has taken over and web standards are becoming more capable all the time. If Microsoft doesn't step up their game they will be replaced.
You could make a very good case that the app world is making the browser obsolete. Skype is installed on 50 million TV sets. It's available for most tablets and cell phones and it can be integrated into other programs like MS Office.
I do object to the geeks who complain about common spelling and grammatical errors in a post to forums like Slashdot.
Some will be posting from a mobile device without a proper keyboard. Others will be nor be native English speakers. Cut-and-Paste doesn't always work as expected and quotations are mangled. It can be a fussy business getting the formatting right.
The point being that you could cut a poster some slack and no harm done.
"It's" breaks the rule in English that noun-apostrophe-s should be read as a possessive and not a contraction. That is why the error persists despite the best efforts of the last five generations or so of grade school teachers who have tried to stamp it out.
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and even supported the bullying and defamation of a Rosetta scientist because of a shirt he wore?
The guns and lingerie tee shirt was not appropriate dress for a globally televised event. Not least because the female engineers and technicians visible in the background were appropriately dressed, which implies a double standard. There are social obligations which come with being the public face of your project.
Seems to me that if the FBI has $25k to offer in reward money, it would be better spent on recovering the stolen cars of people who can barely make ends meet and needed their cars to get to work.
Or is that not how these things work?
No, it isn't how these things work,
The most basic distinctions between state and federal jurisdiction escape the geek --- and he never learns and better. The FBI becomes involved on crimes that have a plausible interstate and foreign dimension.
The clunker car you've been driving to work is probably worth more dead than alive.
So you drown it in the lake or set it on fire and file a claim for the insurance. It's a crime, but not a federal case.
TV is almost 100% reality garbage now because most people who still watch "regular" TV aren't all that swift, so the advertisers give them their junk food.
Top Ten List For Prime-Time Network TV - March 28th
1 Big Bang Theory - Which shouldn't need any introduction here.
3 Empire - Prime time soap opera with a mix of drama and contemporary music - with a Golden Globe and other awards to its credit.
8 NCIS
9 Blue Bloods - NCIS and Blood Bloods both long running police procedurals, a genre that network TV does very well.
10 Sixty Minutes,
The #1 on cable that week was The Walking Dead and #5 The Talking Dead --- and for those of us who have grown weary of the Zombie Apocalypse, the broadcast networks have quite a bit to offer.
The legal subscription services like Groove have 45 million tracks instantly available for streaming or purchase. There will gaps in any one of them, but add Amazon Prime to the mix, YouTube and internet radio and you are pretty well covered. I lost interest in P2P quite some time back. Too much time invested with very little in return.
Disney is using stories and characters that have been in public domain for centuries and if you try to use any of the those properties, they'll sue you into oblivion.
Disney will sue you based on their modern interpretation of these stories and characters. If the Disney version is what you or your kids will remember, it is most likely because the studio is really, really, good at this sort of thing.
Such a library necessarily contains every work that has ever been (or will ever be) written.
With that set of characters. But what if there are ideas which can't be expressed with that set of characters?
This is like pointing to the sci-fi of E.E. "Doc" Smith and claiming you have prior art for a faster-than-light drive.
Prior art has to be anchored in the real world of invention and application or it means nothing.
This is what irks me about /. Even though Ubuntu is an overall fantastic flavor of Linux, if you read the comments here, you'd get the impression that it's more loathed than a Microsoft product.
The geek isn't comfortable with success when success is defined as adoption by those outside his own community.
You can't ban the so-called 'dark web' because you really can't identify where it is.
Unless, of course, the user or the network can be exposed by other means. The tech isn't as good as the geek thinks it is or its users or administrators can't be trusted. The geek who turns to crime has an unfortunate tendency to show off when things are going well. He needs a bigger audience than the dark net can give him.
I have setup Mint for relatives.
For as far back as I can remember, every Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot begins like this --- and it always ends well.
But failure is often more revealing.
I don't have any relations who use Linux and I doubt I could summon a geek out of the woods even if I baited the trap with free beer and one of the gals from Twin Peaks. I began with Windows 95, settled in to stay, and currently run Win 10; if I come across something interesting in F/OSS, I simply download the Windows port.
3) The "Year of the Linux Desktop" has already occurred, and it is Android. 90% of what people use Computers for, can be done on Android (running Linux kernel).
Android builds on the Linux kernel. But it is unmistakably a Google creation (with all the good and bad that comes with that) and not a traditional community-oriented Linux distribution. Android remains focused on the app-oriented mobile world of touch-based UI and the 4 1/2 to 6 inch screen.
I think you misspelled "... to strong-arm OEMs into installing it by default, to the exclusion of all other OSs."
It has been very long time since that has been legal --- and from the beginning anyone could see that the OEMs were crying all the way the bank and that sympathy for them was misplaced.
And maybe he should take a lesson from Apple. You don't have to have 90 percent of the market to be successful.
OSX has impeccable *NIX credentials, a stable and refined UI and a desktop market share 4x that of Linux. (Based on the familiar Net Applications stats)
That said, OSX is not particularly strong on the desktop and it is quite cleat that Apple has essentially conceded substantial shares of that market to Windows.
I suppose code could be considered art. After all Windows has elicited great feelings of despair and anguish from those observing it.
The geek's jokes just write themselves, no need for computer simulation. It would be unkind to suggest that he has had twenty years to stake his claim to the desktop, with next to nothing to show for it, and if that isn't cause for despair, what is?
Sony took away the ability to run GNU/Linux on a Playstation 3.
If you upgraded the firmware.
Which almost everyone did without a second thought.
It was a clever hack buying wholesale lots of the heavily subsidized PS3 to build your high performance computer. Rather than SONY's more expensive commercial grade Cell hardware. But it guaranteed that the Other OS was going away and never coming back.
To get at the research paper itself would cost me a minimum of $36.
It's not clear to me how you build meaningful global stats for a service that is usually promoted here as anonymous. It is also not clear to me how these states relate to the population as a whole.
The ultimate test of a "secret messaging" system is whether people generally feel safe and comfortable using it. The old-time spy hated the gadget or the code book that his handlers claimed could be easily hidden or disguised or disposed of in a pinch. It never quite worked out that way.
Was a toy, still is a toy, and always will be a toy.
The geek has had about twenty years now to topple Windows as a desktop OS --- with damn little to show for it.
Windows in all its incarnations a modern, very capable, OS and it is past time the geek stopped pretending otherwise,
There is a reason why dictionaries look at only certain types of publications for their weird lists, usages, and definitions.
It has been a very long since most dictionaries have tried to impose their own order on the English language.
Then they should be informed of their error.
How do you propose to do that and make it stick? When was the last time the geek engaged in a war of words and won?
The old Mongolian saying that what happens in the jurt, stays in the jurt?
Pinning your hopes on jury nullification is like buying a ticket in the Tri-State Lotto and dreaming about how you'll retire to the life of a billionaire when you win that big cash prize. Your case won't even go to a jury unless there is some remaining factual dispute that gives them room for maneuver.
Too complex. Too arcane.
Bitcoin doesn't have the awareness, utility, or acceptance to be mass market.
Even if 40% or more of your adds are blocked in Firefox, Chrome. IE, Safari and Edge, you're still getting a pretty good bang for your buck.
"No exceptions to mathematics."
This is not mathematics, this is a policy decision, an engineering decision by Apple, and change is never more distant than the next firmware upgrade of the phone.
Rules without exceptions tend to fracture under stress. It happens all the time --- and the geek should know better than to bet that the dam will hold no matter what.
Why is a tech site celebrating this woman, because she used a computer at work? WTF, is there a feminist story quota on /. now?
doesn't seem out of place to ask the geek to at least acknowledge the accomplishments of women in architecture and engineering. particularly as expressed in a body of work of such extrordinary audacity and technical sophistication.
WebRTC has taken over and web standards are becoming more capable all the time. If Microsoft doesn't step up their game they will be replaced.
You could make a very good case that the app world is making the browser obsolete. Skype is installed on 50 million TV sets. It's available for most tablets and cell phones and it can be integrated into other programs like MS Office.
I do object to the geeks who complain about common spelling and grammatical errors in a post to forums like Slashdot.
Some will be posting from a mobile device without a proper keyboard. Others will be nor be native English speakers. Cut-and-Paste doesn't always work as expected and quotations are mangled. It can be a fussy business getting the formatting right.
The point being that you could cut a poster some slack and no harm done.
"It's" breaks the rule in English that noun-apostrophe-s should be read as a possessive and not a contraction. That is why the error persists despite the best efforts of the last five generations or so of grade school teachers who have tried to stamp it out.