Kinda like Snake Plisskin, except without the the tattoo, the eyepatch, the stealth glider, the weapons, or the general bad-assedness. Like Snake without the cool stuff. A nerd Snake.
am having a hard time understanding why even this is necessary. What problem are they trying to solve?
The problem they're solving is an unholy combination of over-the-top hover-parenting and "internal passport" movement control on the part of government, summarized as: "We will know where you are at all times, and you will be where we know you are supposed to be at all times."
Freedom of movement, like most other freedoms (thought, speech, faith) is a problem for control freaks. Your freedom impinges on their control. If they're making the rules, guess which one wins?
Free people are hard to control. That's a problem for those who want to control people.
Which doesn't work if you only sign into Google through IMAP. Ever.
They can infer all they want from the contents of my GMail. It's not as if there's much they can figure out. And they'll have no opportunity whatsoever to tailor advertising according to their deep insightful analysis of my extensive logged-in online presence. I don't use any of their web-based services under a Google login, so they'll just have to spam me with relatively worthless (and as easily ignored) undirected advertising.
The point of gmail is email. Free email, frankly. The web interface is less than useful. It's an active impediment, but thankfully I don't have to use it. I can use their storage and their SMTP hosting with proper IMAP support for free with a proper MUA.
Indeed. A valuable lesson for any impressionable youth to learn: Paypal will work very hard to screw you out of anything it can. Unless the PR blowback gets bad enough.
(Paypal can apparently tolerate a certain low buzz of "Paypal sucks". They have considerably more trouble with Streisand-amplified flack.)
Similar story, except that the TRS-80 I used was the local Radio Shack's in-store demonstrator.
I thought it took a lot of nerve on the part of the 14-year-old shoe-gazing math nerd to attract the attention of the store manager and ask if I could interrupt the in-store demo program to type in these programs I found in the Geometry textbook our school was using. And he agreed.
I think it paid off in the long haul for him; I bought my own TRS-80 from the same guy less than a year later and wound up sinking several thousand of dollars on accessories, peripherals, and software (and other follow-up purchases... for instance my second computer a few years later was a Radio Shack Pocket Computer 2, from the same store).
For me, that was the turning point between computer science and electrical engineering. I was going to buy a computer, but the question was whether it'd be a pre-assembled computer with a BASIC interpreter or a kit like an IMSAI 8080. If I'd bought the kit computer, the threshold to get to the point of writing software would have been considerably higher, after the effort needed to get a working computer to begin with, so I'm pretty sure my focus would have wound up more hardware-centric.
TBH, while the number is pretty big, it's not as if it's some kind of e-peen we're all supposed to be breathlessly impressed with.
In case you hadn't noticed it, he was running his own ad-hoc ISP over it. He was running his own content hosting network (without a CDN, mind you).
He set up the electronic equivalent of a unlicensed public house on leased land and the landlord called him on it. The landlord noticed because he had a lot of foot traffic in and out of the "house". But it's neither particularly smart ("Derp, running a dive bar isn't permitted in residential zoning?") or impressive (cuz, you know, if terabytes transferred mattered, I know of a lot of oldsk00l botted warez hosts that moved that much data back in the day).
It's illustrative to note that the classic "Cynic's Golden Rule" ("He who has the gold makes the rules.") is symmetric and reversible as well: "He who made the rules gets the gold.".
And here, on Hypothetical Conversation Theatre, is the sparkling interplay between AT&T and the PSC:
PSC: Hey, I have a complaint from one "minkie", a customer of yours, that you're raising rates on him in violation of contract and without consultation or permission from us.
AT&T: Surcharge. It's called a "surcharge." We've instituted a surcharge. Our rates are completely unaffected.
Oh, right. "Surcharge." Completely different. Carry on.
Indeed. Floor load is a huge consideration. I've seen mainframe installations go catastrophically (and expensively) wrong when floor loading was miscalculated. Unisys mainframe through the floor. (Well, in that case, raised floor; the concrete actual floor was designed for an aircraft factory, so I guess its load capacity was better.)
Whether GP was joking or not, you have to wonder if the pharmas won't try something analogous to clawing public domain works back under copyright. Which, as any dipshit can tell you, should never happen. Except it does.
When you understand the Halting Problem, and you understand what that has to do with bugs, THEN you will have a right to critique programming as a profession.
Unfortunately, to understand the Halting Problem, you have to first understand the Halting Problem. So it's rather difficult.
So, MST3K was a huge lucrative ongoing copyright violation?
Actually, I guess this non-car non-pizza analogy points out an interesting difference. I'm certain that MST3K's producers made fully sure that the rights to play the movie in syndication were fully paid up, no different than your local TV station showing the "Early Saturday Afternoon Matinee" show... they just did something interesting over it (riffing, goofing off, faux shell story surrounding the movie bits).
This makes the current "Let's play" YouTube case different in a couple of ways: it turns out that the "original" content (the Nintendo-provided bits) are actually BETTER than the "overlaid" content, which is usually either painfully or awkwardly antisocial, and MST3K was able to play and pay within the system, whereas the LPers haven't.
The old long-range AN/FPS-7 air defense search radar at the radar site we used to do our grocery shopping at sure left a ring of little dead birdies on the ground around its tower. I think the little dudes would perch on the catwalk railing around the frog's egg and get lightly toasted by a radar sweep.
But that's a exceptional case, since that was several megawatts of S-band pulse power.
The phrase means "on-going push to ensure Nintendo-owned intellectual property content is shared across social media instead of these opportunist copyright-violating scoundrels'."
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Kinda like Snake Plisskin, except without the the tattoo, the eyepatch, the stealth glider, the weapons, or the general bad-assedness. Like Snake without the cool stuff. A nerd Snake.
So, what'chersayin is that all evidence you don't agree with is fabricated?
Where have I heard that before?
am having a hard time understanding why even this is necessary. What problem are they trying to solve?
The problem they're solving is an unholy combination of over-the-top hover-parenting and "internal passport" movement control on the part of government, summarized as: "We will know where you are at all times, and you will be where we know you are supposed to be at all times."
Freedom of movement, like most other freedoms (thought, speech, faith) is a problem for control freaks. Your freedom impinges on their control. If they're making the rules, guess which one wins?
Free people are hard to control. That's a problem for those who want to control people.
Hope they're smart enough to temper the view they get from this place with a realization of how biased and myopic Slashdot is.
What was that you were saying, Epimenedes?
Which doesn't work if you only sign into Google through IMAP. Ever.
They can infer all they want from the contents of my GMail. It's not as if there's much they can figure out. And they'll have no opportunity whatsoever to tailor advertising according to their deep insightful analysis of my extensive logged-in online presence. I don't use any of their web-based services under a Google login, so they'll just have to spam me with relatively worthless (and as easily ignored) undirected advertising.
The point of gmail is email. Free email, frankly. The web interface is less than useful. It's an active impediment, but thankfully I don't have to use it. I can use their storage and their SMTP hosting with proper IMAP support for free with a proper MUA.
If anything, it's a learning experience.
Indeed. A valuable lesson for any impressionable youth to learn: Paypal will work very hard to screw you out of anything it can. Unless the PR blowback gets bad enough.
(Paypal can apparently tolerate a certain low buzz of "Paypal sucks". They have considerably more trouble with Streisand-amplified flack.)
Similar story, except that the TRS-80 I used was the local Radio Shack's in-store demonstrator.
I thought it took a lot of nerve on the part of the 14-year-old shoe-gazing math nerd to attract the attention of the store manager and ask if I could interrupt the in-store demo program to type in these programs I found in the Geometry textbook our school was using. And he agreed.
I think it paid off in the long haul for him; I bought my own TRS-80 from the same guy less than a year later and wound up sinking several thousand of dollars on accessories, peripherals, and software (and other follow-up purchases... for instance my second computer a few years later was a Radio Shack Pocket Computer 2, from the same store).
For me, that was the turning point between computer science and electrical engineering. I was going to buy a computer, but the question was whether it'd be a pre-assembled computer with a BASIC interpreter or a kit like an IMSAI 8080. If I'd bought the kit computer, the threshold to get to the point of writing software would have been considerably higher, after the effort needed to get a working computer to begin with, so I'm pretty sure my focus would have wound up more hardware-centric.
Well, there's a special word for getting paid for NOT doing something.
It's "extortion."
TBH, while the number is pretty big, it's not as if it's some kind of e-peen we're all supposed to be breathlessly impressed with.
In case you hadn't noticed it, he was running his own ad-hoc ISP over it. He was running his own content hosting network (without a CDN, mind you).
He set up the electronic equivalent of a unlicensed public house on leased land and the landlord called him on it. The landlord noticed because he had a lot of foot traffic in and out of the "house". But it's neither particularly smart ("Derp, running a dive bar isn't permitted in residential zoning?") or impressive (cuz, you know, if terabytes transferred mattered, I know of a lot of oldsk00l botted warez hosts that moved that much data back in the day).
It's illustrative to note that the classic "Cynic's Golden Rule" ("He who has the gold makes the rules.") is symmetric and reversible as well: "He who made the rules gets the gold.".
And here, on Hypothetical Conversation Theatre, is the sparkling interplay between AT&T and the PSC:
is miffed that bitcoins are too mainstream now.
Only 5 pounds?
How are you gonna deploy a reinforced squad of X-Com operatives from that?
Indeed. Floor load is a huge consideration. I've seen mainframe installations go catastrophically (and expensively) wrong when floor loading was miscalculated. Unisys mainframe through the floor. (Well, in that case, raised floor; the concrete actual floor was designed for an aircraft factory, so I guess its load capacity was better.)
No. GitHub uses, as the name implies, Git. You git clone the kiddy porn
FTFY.
Later, we'll create them. Vernor Vinge called it.
Whether GP was joking or not, you have to wonder if the pharmas won't try something analogous to clawing public domain works back under copyright. Which, as any dipshit can tell you, should never happen. Except it does.
When you understand the Halting Problem, and you understand what that has to do with bugs, THEN you will have a right to critique programming as a profession.
Unfortunately, to understand the Halting Problem, you have to first understand the Halting Problem. So it's rather difficult.
It's a play table for GURPS: Railroad!
The model physics core measures temperature in kelvins, you temperature-insensitive clod!
So, MST3K was a huge lucrative ongoing copyright violation?
Actually, I guess this non-car non-pizza analogy points out an interesting difference. I'm certain that MST3K's producers made fully sure that the rights to play the movie in syndication were fully paid up, no different than your local TV station showing the "Early Saturday Afternoon Matinee" show... they just did something interesting over it (riffing, goofing off, faux shell story surrounding the movie bits).
This makes the current "Let's play" YouTube case different in a couple of ways: it turns out that the "original" content (the Nintendo-provided bits) are actually BETTER than the "overlaid" content, which is usually either painfully or awkwardly antisocial, and MST3K was able to play and pay within the system, whereas the LPers haven't.
The old long-range AN/FPS-7 air defense search radar at the radar site we used to do our grocery shopping at sure left a ring of little dead birdies on the ground around its tower. I think the little dudes would perch on the catwalk railing around the frog's egg and get lightly toasted by a radar sweep.
But that's a exceptional case, since that was several megawatts of S-band pulse power.
Is it the cold, lightless, lifeless, soul-sucking corner of the room that the router is located in?
Maybe it's the cold, lightless, lifeless, soul-sucking nation that the entire room is located in.
Or maybe these kids are just damn poor gardeners. It takes talent to botch it so badly that the seeds don't even sprout.
In a way, yes. You didn't parse it right.
The phrase means "on-going push to ensure Nintendo-owned intellectual property content is shared across social media instead of these opportunist copyright-violating scoundrels'."
Dey own teh Intarwebz. Just ask 'em.