Likewise, cat-crap breath;)
Remember, cats will enjoy you being under a parasitic mind-control, but they just won't tell you that...
What'sa matter, too chicken to reply with your user_id? No one is fooled by you posting "Anonymous". Same stoopid writing style.
Here's an idea: don't post retarded shit you would be ashamed to stand by.
by The_Fire_Horse (552422) Alter Relationship on 2006-12-30 0:42 (#17407358)
(http://slashdot.org/~The_Fire_Horse/journal | Last Journal: 2006-12-30 4:18)
Has there been any instance in our nation's military history where we've won a war without a successful propaganda effort? From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to WWII and Vietnam, we have won wars where propaganda was relatively successful and lost when it was not.
We did this to a kid in my hall before, we'll call him Steve. Steve had a Netgear wireless access point he used for his laptop. One day he booted up his laptop to find it connected to "Steve is gay". Next week he found himself connected to "Steve has a vagina". Next week it was "Connect here for hardcore gay porn starring Steve". We never messed much with any other settings really (didn't want to interfere with school work, just wanted harmless pranks) but the hall was always amused to see what the name of Steve's access point would be week to week.
I can tell you don't live near the sea. Believe me, pigeons are cute little bunnies compared to herring gulls. Gulls are the vermin of the skies, give me pigeons any day.
I live about a 10min walk from the ocean. My gulls might be different to your gulls, but I'll take gulls any day over those flying rats of the sky. Seagulls are noisy and annoying when I'm at the beach (not far from famous Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia), but at night time they at least fuck off and sleep near the cliffs or on the sand.
I live ~10 minute walk from sea water (downtown Vancouver), and I'll vote crows off the island any day.
I had to deal with this recently when in Ottawa the farmers were protesting the governments lack of handouts by driving their tractors slowly on the highways. I think they had permits for it but it was still a pain in the ass. Took me three times longer to get to work. Do I now care [or really know about] the plight of the farmers? No. I hate their faces. I'd rather buy produce from the states as my way of protesting.
Sorry, that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen you post, and I usually enjoy your thoughts.
You don't care about the livelihoods of those compatriots that grow your food? Why should they care about you? About your precious drive-to-work times?
Where else are you going to get your food? America?
I'd rather buy produce from the states as my way of protesting
Fucking brilliant. Encourage "free-trading" countries that subsidize their industries enormously. Yeah. That'll teach those un-subsidized Canadian farmers to be thankful for their pittance, won't it?
I'd hope you'd re-think your position after you get over driving 3 times as long to work. Otherwise, go to america and eat all the (GM, desert-grown, unsustainable) produce you can stuff in yer gullet.
You don't have to be a computer genius to know that's idiotic, just like you don't have to be a brain surgeon to know that home operations on your brother are a very bad idea.
Just to play Devil's Advocate here, but why SHOULD they facilitate the use of other OS'es?
It's not that they have to facilitate the use of other OS'es -- though it would generate good will -- it's that they absolutely should not hose another OS on install without at least a warning!
If I was walking down a street in London and saw a door marked "Ministry of Defence. Top Secret. UFO archive." I'd probably keep on walking - unless the door was wide open.
Actually a better analogy would be trying the closed door and discovering it was unlocked - then walking inside instead of raising the alarm.
Raising the alarm to whom? My local constabulary? Not their jurisdiction.
US Gov't? Why? Not my duty, not my country, not my problem. Heck, might make just as much sense to report it to, say, the Chinese military establishment, not the American one.
If someone were to find a security hole in the Chinese military's computer networks, should they notify the Chinese government? If it was an American citizen and they did what McKinnon did, would gov't of USA extradite US citizen to China to face several decades of imprisonment? I think not.
Guess my point is, these cross-jurisdictional incidents are tricky. But 70 years is what the SysAdmin ought to be facing, not this McKinnon bloke, though I wouldn't say he's innocent of everything.
... which has been around for ages: e.g. was on the table in 1991 Probably originates much earlier.
News?? ???
I think the news part was that the first repository is now open. I re-scanned TFA, and while it wasn't explicitly stated (that I saw on re-examination), I think it's newly opened.
From TFA:
The Energy Department predicted such a problem when it began planning for the $9-billion waste dump, dubbed WIPP, in 1974 and for a similar repository in Nevada at Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas. That site has not yet been opened.
On a side note, how far would $9 billion (for this site alone) go in eradicating the toxic waste if spent instead towards research in fusion or Integral Fast Reactor?
...rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design'
I'd say "formally rising" and now "waning". The ID people have been quietly nursing their wounds since U.S. District Judge Jones, really put them in their place last December. The opinion he wrote was extraordinary lucid and well-reasoned. If anyone here hasn't read it, I would highly recommend it. It is anything but a dry legal document.
Agree with the lucid and well-reasoned part, for sure.
However, reason is not something proponents of ID are interested in.
Sweet Zombie Jesus, you have to be kidding. ID is BS. Period. An educated and honest human being has no excuse for pandering to such an invidiously ignorant ideology. A quick reply to your frankly ridiculous bullet points:
Thank you - possibly the best posting on/. ever.
Should be printed out and nailed to the doors of every school & church in the land.
Why the hell would we build near light speed weapons?
I honestly don't know, but the idea of stopping a meteor from hitting earth came to mind.
Gut instincts speaking, but I think a projectile that fast is likely gonna pass right through a target with a nice, clean hole left behind.
And I believe a lot of near earth objects are thought to be loosely compacted ice and rock, not necessarily solid objects.
Black Hawk Down (book) highlighted the issue of having high-speed bullets passing through targets (Somalis), leaving a clean hole, and the target still standing.
If hippies were smart (or even sane), they'd stop trying to derail the discussion of any topic whatsoever off on to their idiotic anti-Bush screeching.
So that's what/. looks like when yer head's firmly up your ass? Interesting.
I guess it's too dark in there to notice that the GP was on topic, and modded +5 insightful for saying something relevant:
I'd love to see Toshiba's mini nuclear reactors [adn.com] widely deployed in the U.S., or at the bare minimum looked into with a few test deployments.
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Seriously, guys, it just makes you look dumb.
Who's looking dumb, ass-hat?
You'rescreeching about off-topic -- how stoopid is that? (Hint: very.)
This thread is not about "Bush", "Iraq", "Cheney", or any of the other topics that you feel compelled to rant about 24/7/365.
Now you're getting way off topic yourself. But you probably feel better now that you've had yer little "bush is great" whine-fest.
You are ignoring the fact that the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1863
Yes, I am ignoring that. It's utterly irrelevant to the subject at hand.
Now you've missed my point -- even with slavery abolished, blacks were treated like 2nd class citizens for over a century, right up 'til at least the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
Which never, ever, stopped America from proclaiming to the world that it was the pinnacle of freedom, liberty, blah, blah, blah, even though blacks had to sit at back of buses, not allowed in white establishments, etc. ad nauseum.
That is why America takes a hard rap to the reputation over slavery. Because of the blatant hypocrisy involved in its position on liberty vs its treatment of blacks.
Actually, the main reason America gets blamed so much for slavery, is that it serves current political agendas to do so.
I believe it's because Americans liked to say something endearing like, "We consider it self evident before god that all men are created equal," while building their infrastructure on the backs of slaves where possible.
It's also because of the non-stop blathering about how 'Merica is the symbol of liberty, freedom, and democracy ("life, liberty, persuit of happines") while owning slaves, or at the very least officially treating black citizens like crap.
It's called gross hypocrisy, but only because I cannot think of a more negative term right now.
The USA abolished slavery well ahead of most of the rest of the world. Saudi Arabia, for example, only abolished slavery (officially) in the 1960s.
Most of the rest of the world? Not the British Empire, if that counts. But congratulations, America beat Saudi Arabia, and hmmm... a couple African dictatorships. Hooray America.
I wonder what Rosa Parks et al think (thought) of their freedom to not sit at the front of a bus, for example? That's liberty, American style, I guess: "Hey Rosa, at least you're not a slave!"
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What'sa matter, too chicken to reply with your user_id? No one is fooled by you posting "Anonymous". Same stoopid writing style.
Here's an idea: don't post retarded shit you would be ashamed to stand by.
by The_Fire_Horse (552422) Alter Relationship on 2006-12-30 0:42 (#17407358) (http://slashdot.org/~The_Fire_Horse/journal | Last Journal: 2006-12-30 4:18)
Ahem.
You must be new around here.
Ba-da-bonk.
The USA won in Vietnam?
Interesting how you define victory...
Didn't your mother teach you not to post as AC? It's ruuuuude.
You bastards!
Your ex-friend, Steve.
I live ~10 minute walk from sea water (downtown Vancouver), and I'll vote crows off the island any day.
Sorry, that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen you post, and I usually enjoy your thoughts.
You don't care about the livelihoods of those compatriots that grow your food? Why should they care about you? About your precious drive-to-work times?
Where else are you going to get your food? America?
Fucking brilliant. Encourage "free-trading" countries that subsidize their industries enormously. Yeah. That'll teach those un-subsidized Canadian farmers to be thankful for their pittance, won't it?
I'd hope you'd re-think your position after you get over driving 3 times as long to work. Otherwise, go to america and eat all the (GM, desert-grown, unsustainable) produce you can stuff in yer gullet.
RB
You don't know my brother.
It's not that they have to facilitate the use of other OS'es -- though it would generate good will -- it's that they absolutely should not hose another OS on install without at least a warning!
Raising the alarm to whom? My local constabulary? Not their jurisdiction.
US Gov't? Why? Not my duty, not my country, not my problem. Heck, might make just as much sense to report it to, say, the Chinese military establishment, not the American one.
If someone were to find a security hole in the Chinese military's computer networks, should they notify the Chinese government? If it was an American citizen and they did what McKinnon did, would gov't of USA extradite US citizen to China to face several decades of imprisonment? I think not.
Guess my point is, these cross-jurisdictional incidents are tricky. But 70 years is what the SysAdmin ought to be facing, not this McKinnon bloke, though I wouldn't say he's innocent of everything.
I think the news part was that the first repository is now open. I re-scanned TFA, and while it wasn't explicitly stated (that I saw on re-examination), I think it's newly opened.
From TFA:
The Energy Department predicted such a problem when it began planning for the $9-billion waste dump, dubbed WIPP, in 1974 and for a similar repository in Nevada at Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas. That site has not yet been opened.
On a side note, how far would $9 billion (for this site alone) go in eradicating the toxic waste if spent instead towards research in fusion or Integral Fast Reactor?
rb
I'm Dvorak, you insensitive clod!
[wakes up ... {shudders}]
There's your problem right there.
You're their ca$h cow.
Agree with the lucid and well-reasoned part, for sure.
However, reason is not something proponents of ID are interested in.
ID will re-surface, I sadly predict.
It gets worse -- it is now up to:
+4 Funny, but Insightful?!
Thank you - possibly the best posting on /. ever.
Should be printed out and nailed to the doors of every school & church in the land.
I'll bet Pamela Anderson has night vision, IR, UV, and much, much more.
Er, Pamela, I'm um, sorry if you saw that time that I thought um... Or, those other times.
I'll just go now.
Uranus? Did you check the back side?
(Spare me the lame Uranus jokes...)
Apparently I couldn't help myself.
Sorry.
I'm done now.
Another is ExpersExchange.com (ExpertSexChange.com).
I can still hear some webmaster first realizing the mistake, "D'oh!"
Gut instincts speaking, but I think a projectile that fast is likely gonna pass right through a target with a nice, clean hole left behind.
And I believe a lot of near earth objects are thought to be loosely compacted ice and rock, not necessarily solid objects.
Black Hawk Down (book) highlighted the issue of having high-speed bullets passing through targets (Somalis), leaving a clean hole, and the target still standing.
Just my 2 cents...
So that's what /. looks like when yer head's firmly up your ass? Interesting.
I guess it's too dark in there to notice that the GP was on topic, and modded +5 insightful for saying something relevant:
?Seriously, guys, it just makes you look dumb.
Who's looking dumb, ass-hat?
You're screeching about off-topic -- how stoopid is that? (Hint: very.)
This thread is not about "Bush", "Iraq", "Cheney", or any of the other topics that you feel compelled to rant about 24/7/365.
Now you're getting way off topic yourself. But you probably feel better now that you've had yer little "bush is great" whine-fest.
If the U.S. were smart it would not be at war in Iraq
Yes, I am ignoring that. It's utterly irrelevant to the subject at hand.
Now you've missed my point -- even with slavery abolished, blacks were treated like 2nd class citizens for over a century, right up 'til at least the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
Which never, ever, stopped America from proclaiming to the world that it was the pinnacle of freedom, liberty, blah, blah, blah, even though blacks had to sit at back of buses, not allowed in white establishments, etc. ad nauseum.
That is why America takes a hard rap to the reputation over slavery. Because of the blatant hypocrisy involved in its position on liberty vs its treatment of blacks.
Get it now?
I believe it's because Americans liked to say something endearing like, "We consider it self evident before god that all men are created equal," while building their infrastructure on the backs of slaves where possible.
It's also because of the non-stop blathering about how 'Merica is the symbol of liberty, freedom, and democracy ("life, liberty, persuit of happines") while owning slaves, or at the very least officially treating black citizens like crap.
It's called gross hypocrisy, but only because I cannot think of a more negative term right now.
The USA abolished slavery well ahead of most of the rest of the world. Saudi Arabia, for example, only abolished slavery (officially) in the 1960s.
Most of the rest of the world? Not the British Empire, if that counts. But congratulations, America beat Saudi Arabia, and hmmm... a couple African dictatorships. Hooray America.
I wonder what Rosa Parks et al think (thought) of their freedom to not sit at the front of a bus, for example? That's liberty, American style, I guess: "Hey Rosa, at least you're not a slave!"