About 3000 years or so of cultural heritage, combined with general apathy on the subject from the public at large. The alliteration doesn't hurt, either.
Have fun tilting at those windmills.
Well, if he's lacking Sense#8 (balance), he sure is going to tilt. [for those lacking Sense#37 (puns), yes I do know the alternate meanings of "tilt"]
It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
I agree entirely. People who want to do hardware mods are buying Arduinos and RaspberryPIs, and whatever offbrand mobos they love. People who want a simple, packaged, tool, buy non-repairable/non-moddable items.
if you like playing card games, there are approximately aleph-null solitaire games in existence. You should be able to find a few freeware/adware apps which contain from 5 to 500 different solitaire card games. Pick the ones you like.
So basically this generation is the last who needs to know how to do math? The next one just needs to know how to punch it into a computer and hope the answer is right?
(must be my day for showing off my SciFi knowledge:-) "The Machine Stops, by EM Forster." Thought by some to be the inspiration for THX1138.
I work in a government building that is also a tourist attraction. Every day I scan my ID card and breeze through the turnstiles while children, old ladies, and lawyers/lobbyists have to queue up and go through the X-Ray machines.
So, what you're saying here is that you're a Soviet mole who's taken the time to establish bona fides, and one of these days you're gonna slide right into said building and cause horrible mayhem?
While I'm joking about you personally (I'd feel really bad for a few minutes if you got tooken off to Gitmo on the basis of this post), it just shows once again how pointless the fundamental security approaches in place are.
I don't see the point in singling out Islam, however. The statement should also be equally inclusive to every ridiculous religion and fantasy, including Buddhism, Wicca, astrology, and numerology.
Now, to be fair, at least the Wiccans I know do not congregate and certainly do not require anyone, even their spouses, to follow their relatively benign version of insanity. And numerologists can't even conceive of irrational numbers, which is pretty ironic considering how irrational they are themselves.
This sort of shit goes on all the time in Egypt (at least since Sadat was assassinated). Across a border or two (or 6 if your name is GHWB), the Saudis are practically open in their funding of Islamic terrorist groups, and their abuse of women is just short of unbelievable. And yet the US gov't supports these countries and sells them tons of top-notch state of the art military surveillance and tactical gear. I shudder every time my corporate overlords deliver epistles to us peons about ethics and responsibility, followed by exhortations to get that system ready to ship to -- you can guess which countries.
But what about Microsoft's responsibility? Flash embedded in a Word document?
Yeah, not to mention the idiotic capability to embed entire Office documents inside other Office docs. I knew people who thought this was far better than, say, a nice zip archive. I used to get even by doing helpful things like converting a Word doc to PDF (try opening that embedded spreadsheet NOW, Dr. Doom!), or embedding a PowerPoint doc in a Word doc., embedding that Word doc in an Exel workbook, etc. in an EmbeddedTurtles Allthe Way Down sequence, and giving that back to them.
Word can be Pwned by an image, an embedded spreadsheet, a document template...
Exactly. Add to that the fact that any jackass who's learned to click on "Developer" can create a macro. I recall one horrible Word macro provided to our company from a customer (this is in the DoD world, where all sorts of 'mandatory forms' are passed around). The concept was stupid enough: when this document template was opened, an autorun macro created an extra Menu item (back in the heavenly days before the cursed Ribbon) full of special macro-backed commands we had to use to fill the Word doc with hours/dollars estimates. Yep- they stuck math macros in there to do spreadsheet summations. Then when the user was done, quitting Word ran *Another* autorun macro to clean out the extra menu crapola. Anyone see the craptastic FAIL yet?:-) . If you close this particular document but have other Word docs open, the autorun_on_close macro doesnt' execute. But since the document containing said macro is closed, when you quit Word the extra Menu remains! Extreme hilarity results. (not really)
Why was this system connected to the internet either directly through the main lan or an unsecured vlan?
Well, having just finished Ghost in the Machine, my bet is some genius in big9's IT dep't got a phone call that went "Hi, this is Bob from AccountTemps and I need you to change your password on the repository server so we can verify our updated security patch is working..."
Microsoft's case, that is. I find the sexual connotations of the word "scroogled" to be far more offensive than the rather unimpressive right nipple of Janet Jackson.
damn straight smartphones are PCs. They just happen to be small-format computers with a cellular link chipset added in.
Now, just to make both you and me look like the idiots we are, can anyone come up with an accepted, standardized definition of what constitutes a "personal computer" ? I know I can't.
That was exactly my reaction, too. Let's quit worrying about assholes from trollville.com or HBO DMCA-ing itself. What we need, aside from a major overhaul of copyright law, is some laws that make it absolutely illegal to demand file takedowns until after a judgement has been made in a court of law verifying the material is infringing. The intersection of US politicians (and judges) who are (a) not completely corrupt and (b) have a clue what software, networks, and copyright are about, is probably zero, so I'm not holdiing my breath here.
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About 3000 years or so of cultural heritage, combined with general apathy on the subject from the public at large. The alliteration doesn't hurt, either.
Have fun tilting at those windmills.
Well, if he's lacking Sense#8 (balance), he sure is going to tilt.
[for those lacking Sense#37 (puns), yes I do know the alternate meanings of "tilt"]
It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
I agree entirely. People who want to do hardware mods are buying Arduinos and RaspberryPIs, and whatever offbrand mobos they love. People who want a simple, packaged, tool, buy non-repairable/non-moddable items.
if you like playing card games, there are approximately aleph-null solitaire games in existence. You should be able to find a few freeware/adware apps which contain from 5 to 500 different solitaire card games. Pick the ones you like.
So basically this generation is the last who needs to know how to do math?
The next one just needs to know how to punch it into a computer and hope the answer is right?
(must be my day for showing off my SciFi knowledge :-)
"The Machine Stops, by EM Forster." Thought by some to be the inspiration for THX1138.
Which is to say, I agree with you.
"Feeling of Power"
P.S. Why can't computer math be taught as well as teaching kids how to do math on their own?
Wow ... that's all really ... retarded.
skipping the 'insensitive clod' opening and moving right over to:
Stop calling crap like that 'retarded.' That's really lame.
The question becomes whether the members of the US armed forces are actually willing to turn their weapons on their neighbors, coworkers or friends?
Kent State
Jackson State
A certain LA cop currently on the run
Three examples should suffice; if not go Google for yourself.
I work in a government building that is also a tourist attraction. Every day I scan my ID card and breeze through the turnstiles while children, old ladies, and lawyers/lobbyists have to queue up and go through the X-Ray machines.
So, what you're saying here is that you're a Soviet mole who's taken the time to establish bona fides, and one of these days you're gonna slide right into said building and cause horrible mayhem?
While I'm joking about you personally (I'd feel really bad for a few minutes if you got tooken off to Gitmo on the basis of this post), it just shows once again how pointless the fundamental security approaches in place are.
I don't see the point in singling out Islam, however. The statement should also be equally inclusive to every ridiculous religion and fantasy, including Buddhism, Wicca, astrology, and numerology.
Now, to be fair, at least the Wiccans I know do not congregate and certainly do not require anyone, even their spouses, to follow their relatively benign version of insanity.
And numerologists can't even conceive of irrational numbers, which is pretty ironic considering how irrational they are themselves.
This sort of shit goes on all the time in Egypt (at least since Sadat was assassinated). Across a border or two (or 6 if your name is GHWB), the Saudis are practically open in their funding of Islamic terrorist groups, and their abuse of women is just short of unbelievable.
And yet the US gov't supports these countries and sells them tons of top-notch state of the art military surveillance and tactical gear. I shudder every time my corporate overlords deliver epistles to us peons about ethics and responsibility, followed by exhortations to get that system ready to ship to -- you can guess which countries.
But what about Microsoft's responsibility? Flash embedded in a Word document?
Yeah, not to mention the idiotic capability to embed entire Office documents inside other Office docs. I knew people who thought this was far better than, say, a nice zip archive. I used to get even by doing helpful things like converting a Word doc to PDF (try opening that embedded spreadsheet NOW, Dr. Doom!), or embedding a PowerPoint doc in a Word doc., embedding that Word doc in an Exel workbook, etc. in an EmbeddedTurtles Allthe Way Down sequence, and giving that back to them.
Word can be Pwned by an image, an embedded spreadsheet, a document template...
Exactly. Add to that the fact that any jackass who's learned to click on "Developer" can create a macro. I recall one horrible Word macro provided to our company from a customer (this is in the DoD world, where all sorts of 'mandatory forms' are passed around). The concept was stupid enough: when this document template was opened, an autorun macro created an extra Menu item (back in the heavenly days before the cursed Ribbon) full of special macro-backed commands we had to use to fill the Word doc with hours/dollars estimates. Yep- they stuck math macros in there to do spreadsheet summations. Then when the user was done, quitting Word ran *Another* autorun macro to clean out the extra menu crapola. :-) . If you close this particular document but have other Word docs open, the autorun_on_close macro doesnt' execute. But since the document containing said macro is closed, when you quit Word the extra Menu remains!
Anyone see the craptastic FAIL yet?
Extreme hilarity results. (not really)
Why was this system connected to the internet either directly through the main lan or an unsecured vlan?
Well, having just finished Ghost in the Machine, my bet is some genius in big9's IT dep't got a phone call that went "Hi, this is Bob from AccountTemps and I need you to change your password on the repository server so we can verify our updated security patch is working..."
The "BazINGa" and "badaBING" jokes that is.
In Soviet Russia, the Yandex Bings you?
Microsoft's case, that is. I find the sexual connotations of the word "scroogled" to be far more offensive than the rather unimpressive right nipple of Janet Jackson.
Thepathetically sad truth is that Fox News gets higher ratings than Jon Stewart on a consistent basis.
Need I say "FTFY" ?
Is it really a surprise that there are more viewers of Fox News than CC? The ignorant masses flock to those who stroke them (or something like that).
Maybe in the long run it'll be simpler to define a PC on the outcome of "Will it Blend."
damn straight smartphones are PCs. They just happen to be small-format computers with a cellular link chipset added in.
Now, just to make both you and me look like the idiots we are, can anyone come up with an accepted, standardized definition of what constitutes a "personal computer" ? I know I can't.
Skip this version and wait for them to start producing bobbles
According to statistics, 9 out of 10 businesses fail
Fine. But if in fact the average ROI on business that don't fail is > 10 + epsilon :1 , you still come out ahead in the long run.
I'm not saying that is what happens, just that you need to analyze a larger picture.
WTF? A comment that's pure humor/satire is flagged as "insightful" ? I must be in the wrong alternate universe (again)
That was exactly my reaction, too. Let's quit worrying about assholes from trollville.com or HBO DMCA-ing itself.
What we need, aside from a major overhaul of copyright law, is some laws that make it absolutely illegal to demand file takedowns until after a judgement has been made in a court of law verifying the material is infringing.
The intersection of US politicians (and judges) who are (a) not completely corrupt and (b) have a clue what software, networks, and copyright are about, is probably zero, so I'm not holdiing my breath here.
In fact, of the 1,622,441 prime numbers p up to 25,964,951,[5] Mp is prime for only 42 of them.
I can't believe you wrote that without giving credit to Ford and Arthur!
I wonder if 2^(2^57,885,161-1)-1 is also prime.
Stop wondering and start dividing. Call us when done.
You would think that since most people here are educated, the commentary would be a little more intelligent
In some sense, it is: try reading the comments threads on yahoo news for a sampling of the average (hah) American's level of literacy.