It was just a joke. The subtext being: Coders and hence slashdotters are stereotypically known for their coffee drinking [eg, the language Java is named because of coffee], you mentioned 'coffee doesn't work for me' and then misspell the name of the 'active ingredient' [in context of a drug-related thread], I can come along [in the manner of a stoner type dude] and suggest you're being ripped-off by your imagined 'dealer'. It's a joke, a pretty lame one maybe I grant you, but just a joke.
Sheesh, I never thought I have to explain a joke to a German;-)
or I could of wrote:
Es war ein Witz gerecht. Das subtext, das ist: Kodierer und folglich slashdotters bekannt stereotypisch für ihren Kaffee, trinkend [ z.B., wird die Sprache Java wegen des Kaffees genannt ], erwähnten Sie ' Kaffee arbeiten nicht für mich ' und fehlbuchstabieren dann den Namen der ' Aktivsubstanz ' [ im Kontext eines Droge-in Verbindung stehenden Gewindes ], das ich entlang kommen kann [ in der Weise einer Entkernerart Geck ] und Sie vorzuschlagen werde zerrissen-weg von Ihrem vorgestellten ' Händler '. Es ist ein Witz, ein hübscher Lamé einer möglicherweise bewillige ich Sie, aber gerade einen Witz.
Sheesh, dachte ich nie, daß ich einen Witz einem Deutschen erklären muß
Send your grammer complaints straight to Babel Fish and they'll see what they can do. Schicken Sie den Babel Fischen Ihre grammer Beanstandungen gerade und sie sehen, was sie tun können. -- Kalifornien Rest Friedensim simultanen Freigabe Kalifornien Erscheinen Ihre Zähne die sie meine Priesterin, ich ist, sind Ihr Priester
Strangely enough I am reminded of going out with a girl in 1991 that was PA in a private shop that sold spy gadgets all over the world. I used to go round there sometimes and the stuff they had was fairly incredible. They made a fortune selling this stuff particularly to the Middle East and America (it was based in London W2 btw). Anyway I made friends with the guy that owned it, really decent bloke actually (weird that he made a living selling these things - some of them were weapons as opposed to spy gadgets), and he gave me a radio bug that looked like a 3-way UK plug adaptor. It took it's power from the mains and broadcast on FM for a few hundred metres. I still have it somewhere but never used it for nefarious purposes though I was tempted. I think this guy used to do the Private Eye ads too. I was amazed when I first learned about it and the type of 'conferences' they went on - this article apart from being a spam is nothing new at all.
It's called BlueJacking and has being going on for a few years. Sometimes I try it in cafes - you end up trying to guess the name of the pretty girl in the corner from your list of possibles.
In fact I'm all in favour of social networking software built into phones - something like a local myspace that you carry with you. Would be great at parties if your phone said, "You should really talk to this person - I'll put an intro in for you if you want".
should have been "Ballmer Beaten by Blunt Instrument" - much better for everyone I think.
They surely can't be just realising what a crock windoze is though could they? Previously did they think it was just clueless users getting it wrong? I still don't believe these billionaires use Windoze systems - all that money and still a crap PC on your desktop? I wouldn't stand for it...
I don't know much about PHP and all these new fangled languages but as a boy I was something of a whizz at BASIC. I had a ZX81, a VIC20, a CBM64 and really there wasn't anything I couldn't do within the bounds of the language. I even learned 6502 just to get games to arcade standard. Later when I went to college I had to learn Pascal (they said it was the grown up version of BASIC) and became good at that too - even though passing variables and the like was a little scary at first. I graduated with a good CompSci degree and absolutely no saleable skills in the world of programming. Looking back now I do feel BASIC in particular was a bad way to learn programming seeing as how most of the interesting stuff came from hacking it about someway or another and the large projects always turned into unmanageable spaghetti. Because of my background the 'serious' languages always scared me to death and by that stage I really didn't care enough to go on with them.
It's not that I mind, I became a music programmer and producer and used my computer 'skillz' in problem solving all the time, but I think it's true - learning bad langauges can really stifle the development of programmers. I have no idea whether this applies here though.
I honestly thought this was a genetic engineering story when I first saw it. Was imagining something that looked like a bunch of grapes that tasted like apples. Actually much more interesing idea than the real story as far as I can see.
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OT: (LOVE the italics on the new CSS but there's too much line spacing guys)
Older people are not stupid, but they are being made to feel stupid by stupid designers, programmers and documenters, and as technology becomes more important this is more and more damaging to their lives.
I agree with that so much. But, when I tried to outline that to my parents, they think I"m calling them stupid by it. Like 'they're so stupid they need special 'for stupid' software'. Nope, not the point Mum and Dad - why don't you read slashdot more often?
Last night decided to get a little bonged out and surf teh interweb. Had a look at rense.com for a bit of high weirdness and came across the amazingly named "Morgellon's disease". A disease so weird doctors wouldn't look at it? On Rense? It's got to be nonsense. (Either that or the chemtrails are involved.)
I grew up in the 70s in London when the IRA were fairly routinely blowing stuff up. At no stage did anyone suggest compulsory ID to deal with this. Mainly the bins were taken off the trains and eventually a 'ring-of-steel' (meaning police checkpoints at increased presence) around the City Of London (our Wall St). Then somehow by the end of nineties we had become the most surveilled people on Earth.
Post 911 the talk of terrorism never went away. And then 7/7 came along and the paranoia and suspicion just went sky-high. Now we too lived in a country where any change of law could be carried off with the mere mention of the T-word. (Either that or the other one, the P-word, the Glitter-crime). This year Blair has is own little version of the Patriot act coming into force, one where he can issue laws without recourse to Parliament as long as they don't include tax increases or a prison penalty greater than 24 months.
Electronic sniffers are be trialed on a few parts of the underground smelling for explosive traces and there is a scheme in planning for a countrywide network of number plate recognition cameras recording all vehicles on a gigantic DB. Most London Transport users use RFID (oyster) in replacement for the old tickets and all this data is recorded. We will have RFID national ID soon at a cost of around £90 per person, compulsory. I could go on but here's a link or two to go on with.
So, as Orwell (real name: Eric Blair) predicted, we really are heading for a BB state. It's obvious that the UK is the USs puppy dog and we are in the 'endless' war just as long as you are. Really the UK is just another state of the USA. Maybe even quite a powerful and important one at that.
There is a saying in England "Watch America that's what here will be like in 10 years time" - now it seems we've just about caught up or even exceeded what's going on in the US.
I'm sorry I should have explained this more clearly and stalled the knee-jerk comments. In London there are issues with lack of signage on the roads in some places and I fell foul of what is basically a money making scheme that has been introduced to cash in on these ambiguities. I would like to say I am not a sociopathic idiot, I've driven for 25 years with no accidents or fines up till last year, but like millions in this country now have suffered under draconian and inflexible laws often used as a cashcow for the government. Londoners will understand what I'm talking about.
Everyday I cycle and put my life at risk from motorists and am fully aware of the dangers of bad driving - I really don't need your patronizing lecture, thank you.
London is already the most surveilled place in the world. I know because I live here. It's beginning to feel oppressive as you know there is probably someone taping you everywhere you go. Speed cameras are making driving without getting fined difficult - cost me £180 last year for very minor speed offences. Soon TPTB will be fining you for smoking or spitting on the street using this type of technology - you'll just get a computer print-out sent to your house. Maybe I read to much sci-fi as a kid but I feel like I'm in 1984 half the time anyway. Erosion of civil liberties is pernicious and creeping - at what stage to we pass the point where it's too far?
Even when criminals are caught what happens to them? - the prisons are full (75% drug-related offences - generally just poor people trying to make a go of things) - and fining the poor never really works. The criminal justice system in this country is ineffective and flawed - many 'bad people' get away with misdemeanours because of various technicalities so what's the point of catching more people? Nothing is going to get solved.
Q: How is the government preparing for the probable collapse of society as peak oil begins to bite?
A: By developing 'Big Brother' technologies and surveilling everyone. Selling paranoia to everyone about their fellow men and neighbours to prevent social movements from emerging - typical 'divide and rule' tactics, time-tested and true.
Now to turn on the news and watch the 4-minute hate . . . . ooh what a bad man, string him up, string him up! He's the reason everything's so bad now, we see it now.
Slashdot Mirror
It was just a joke. The subtext being: Coders and hence slashdotters are stereotypically known for their coffee drinking [eg, the language Java is named because of coffee], you mentioned 'coffee doesn't work for me' and then misspell the name of the 'active ingredient' [in context of a drug-related thread], I can come along [in the manner of a stoner type dude] and suggest you're being ripped-off by your imagined 'dealer'. It's a joke, a pretty lame one maybe I grant you, but just a joke.
;-)
Sheesh, I never thought I have to explain a joke to a German
or I could of wrote:
Es war ein Witz gerecht. Das subtext, das ist: Kodierer und folglich slashdotters bekannt stereotypisch für ihren Kaffee, trinkend [ z.B., wird die Sprache Java wegen des Kaffees genannt ], erwähnten Sie ' Kaffee arbeiten nicht für mich ' und fehlbuchstabieren dann den Namen der ' Aktivsubstanz ' [ im Kontext eines Droge-in Verbindung stehenden Gewindes ], das ich entlang kommen kann [ in der Weise einer Entkernerart Geck ] und Sie vorzuschlagen werde zerrissen-weg von Ihrem vorgestellten ' Händler '. Es ist ein Witz, ein hübscher Lamé einer möglicherweise bewillige ich Sie, aber gerade einen Witz.
Sheesh, dachte ich nie, daß ich einen Witz einem Deutschen erklären muß
Send your grammer complaints straight to Babel Fish and they'll see what they can do.
Schicken Sie den Babel Fischen Ihre grammer Beanstandungen gerade und sie sehen, was sie tun können.
--
Kalifornien Rest Friedensim
simultanen Freigabe
Kalifornien Erscheinen Ihre Zähne
die sie meine Priesterin, ich ist, sind Ihr Priester
coffein?
Somebody's been selling you the wrong kind, dude!
Strangely enough I am reminded of going out with a girl in 1991 that was PA in a private shop that sold spy gadgets all over the world. I used to go round there sometimes and the stuff they had was fairly incredible. They made a fortune selling this stuff particularly to the Middle East and America (it was based in London W2 btw). Anyway I made friends with the guy that owned it, really decent bloke actually (weird that he made a living selling these things - some of them were weapons as opposed to spy gadgets), and he gave me a radio bug that looked like a 3-way UK plug adaptor. It took it's power from the mains and broadcast on FM for a few hundred metres. I still have it somewhere but never used it for nefarious purposes though I was tempted. I think this guy used to do the Private Eye ads too. I was amazed when I first learned about it and the type of 'conferences' they went on - this article apart from being a spam is nothing new at all.
cheaper iMacs, Mac books?
I sure hope so.
It's called BlueJacking and has being going on for a few years. Sometimes I try it in cafes - you end up trying to guess the name of the pretty girl in the corner from your list of possibles.
In fact I'm all in favour of social networking software built into phones - something like a local myspace that you carry with you. Would be great at parties if your phone said, "You should really talk to this person - I'll put an intro in for you if you want".
Or maybe I'm being a bit sad.
http://www.funsms.net/blue_jacking.htm
should have been "Ballmer Beaten by Blunt Instrument" - much better for everyone I think.
They surely can't be just realising what a crock windoze is though could they? Previously did they think it was just clueless users getting it wrong? I still don't believe these billionaires use Windoze systems - all that money and still a crap PC on your desktop? I wouldn't stand for it...
I don't know much about PHP and all these new fangled languages but as a boy I was something of a whizz at BASIC. I had a ZX81, a VIC20, a CBM64 and really there wasn't anything I couldn't do within the bounds of the language. I even learned 6502 just to get games to arcade standard. Later when I went to college I had to learn Pascal (they said it was the grown up version of BASIC) and became good at that too - even though passing variables and the like was a little scary at first. I graduated with a good CompSci degree and absolutely no saleable skills in the world of programming. Looking back now I do feel BASIC in particular was a bad way to learn programming seeing as how most of the interesting stuff came from hacking it about someway or another and the large projects always turned into unmanageable spaghetti. Because of my background the 'serious' languages always scared me to death and by that stage I really didn't care enough to go on with them.
It's not that I mind, I became a music programmer and producer and used my computer 'skillz' in problem solving all the time, but I think it's true - learning bad langauges can really stifle the development of programmers. I have no idea whether this applies here though.
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Appleberry
I honestly thought this was a genetic engineering story when I first saw it. Was imagining something that looked like a bunch of grapes that tasted like apples. Actually much more interesing idea than the real story as far as I can see.
-
OT: (LOVE the italics on the new CSS but there's too much line spacing guys)
I have a Mac posture. It's just like waaay cooler ;^)
nt
. . . you can buy software now? ;-P
Older people are not stupid, but they are being made to feel stupid by stupid designers, programmers and documenters, and as technology becomes more important this is more and more damaging to their lives.
I agree with that so much. But, when I tried to outline that to my parents, they think I"m calling them stupid by it. Like 'they're so stupid they need special 'for stupid' software'. Nope, not the point Mum and Dad - why don't you read slashdot more often?
Last night decided to get a little bonged out and surf teh interweb. Had a look at rense.com for a bit of high weirdness and came across the amazingly named "Morgellon's disease". A disease so weird doctors wouldn't look at it? On Rense? It's got to be nonsense. (Either that or the chemtrails are involved.)
/.?
/., just like a Morgellon's victim, is not getting any better is it?
http://www.rense.com/general71/mmor.htm
And now it's on
Let's face it,
(Can't we go back to PPC v x86 arguments somehow?)
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/s tory/0,,1778674,00.html
We are in the lead! Huzzah for our friendly neighbour hood spies!
whereas they took their time with the MacBook and got it right.
How I admire your faith!
I grew up in the 70s in London when the IRA were fairly routinely blowing stuff up. At no stage did anyone suggest compulsory ID to deal with this. Mainly the bins were taken off the trains and eventually a 'ring-of-steel' (meaning police checkpoints at increased presence) around the City Of London (our Wall St). Then somehow by the end of nineties we had become the most surveilled people on Earth.
Post 911 the talk of terrorism never went away. And then 7/7 came along and the paranoia and suspicion just went sky-high. Now we too lived in a country where any change of law could be carried off with the mere mention of the T-word. (Either that or the other one, the P-word, the Glitter-crime). This year Blair has is own little version of the Patriot act coming into force, one where he can issue laws without recourse to Parliament as long as they don't include tax increases or a prison penalty greater than 24 months.
Electronic sniffers are be trialed on a few parts of the underground smelling for explosive traces and there is a scheme in planning for a countrywide network of number plate recognition cameras recording all vehicles on a gigantic DB. Most London Transport users use RFID (oyster) in replacement for the old tickets and all this data is recorded. We will have RFID national ID soon at a cost of around £90 per person, compulsory. I could go on but here's a link or two to go on with.
http://www.no2id.net/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/
So, as Orwell (real name: Eric Blair) predicted, we really are heading for a BB state. It's obvious that the UK is the USs puppy dog and we are in the 'endless' war just as long as you are. Really the UK is just another state of the USA. Maybe even quite a powerful and important one at that.
There is a saying in England "Watch America that's what here will be like in 10 years time" - now it seems we've just about caught up or even exceeded what's going on in the US.
Everyone knows that George Orwell was really named Eric Blair, right?
Sometimes I find this fact just too ironic.
nazis, horrifying, bigbrother, fascism, stupid
I mean, you can expand on that but it's basically all right there.
Everyone should read the history of Germany from 1933-39. "History doesn't repeat but it rhymes"
Eek.
that's genius! I want that.
I'm sorry I should have explained this more clearly and stalled the knee-jerk comments. In London there are issues with lack of signage on the roads in some places and I fell foul of what is basically a money making scheme that has been introduced to cash in on these ambiguities. I would like to say I am not a sociopathic idiot, I've driven for 25 years with no accidents or fines up till last year, but like millions in this country now have suffered under draconian and inflexible laws often used as a cashcow for the government. Londoners will understand what I'm talking about.
Everyday I cycle and put my life at risk from motorists and am fully aware of the dangers of bad driving - I really don't need your patronizing lecture, thank you.
Cruise control in London? Yeah that would work . . . Think of another techno-fix.
London is already the most surveilled place in the world. I know because I live here. It's beginning to feel oppressive as you know there is probably someone taping you everywhere you go. Speed cameras are making driving without getting fined difficult - cost me £180 last year for very minor speed offences. Soon TPTB will be fining you for smoking or spitting on the street using this type of technology - you'll just get a computer print-out sent to your house. Maybe I read to much sci-fi as a kid but I feel like I'm in 1984 half the time anyway. Erosion of civil liberties is pernicious and creeping - at what stage to we pass the point where it's too far?
Even when criminals are caught what happens to them? - the prisons are full (75% drug-related offences - generally just poor people trying to make a go of things) - and fining the poor never really works. The criminal justice system in this country is ineffective and flawed - many 'bad people' get away with misdemeanours because of various technicalities so what's the point of catching more people? Nothing is going to get solved.
Q: How is the government preparing for the probable collapse of society as peak oil begins to bite?
A: By developing 'Big Brother' technologies and surveilling everyone. Selling paranoia to everyone about their fellow men and neighbours to prevent social movements from emerging - typical 'divide and rule' tactics, time-tested and true.
Now to turn on the news and watch the 4-minute hate . . . . ooh what a bad man, string him up, string him up! He's the reason everything's so bad now, we see it now.
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr04 2506.htm
This backs up what I was saying. I believe there is a 'great inflation' coming and PMs are a safe way around it.
That's helicopter commander Ben Bernanke to you :--)
(He needs the helicopter to drop all the money from)