The unwise, reactionary, direction-less types who tend to attach themselves to any major movement are the biggest problem the Occupiers currently have. Do you not notice how the media reports with glee the rapes, murders, etc. that occur on the Occupied territory? That's exactly what they want -- for you to be no better. If you want to be effective, don't give it to them.
Your problem is, and I have this information directly from people who participated in this very same activity in the 1960s, is that the unwise, reactionary, direction-less types, as well as those looking to party, do drugs, and hook-up with the opposite sex, are 99% of your protest numbers. Without them, the true reactionaries would be seen as too small a group to even care about. So they have to invite everybody else in in an attempt to show numbers that they don't truly possess. Running a fine Kitchen and giving out lots of free stuff at the Comfort Tent gave OWS the appearance of numbers far beyond the true reality of the dedicated.
'You have a truncheon or gun, I have a camera. You inflict pain, I inflict infamy.'
You know, in gun verses camera, I'm betting on gun. It's bad to try to hurt me when I'm capable of hurting you much worse in return and you're only counting on my good nature not to. It's the same as rock verses gun, bottle verses gun, molotov cocktail verses gun, or even bringing a knife to a gunfight. You may survive today, but you can only afford to be wrong once.
"James Fallows writes that you don't have to idealize everything about the Occupy movement to recognize the stoic resolve of the protesters at UC Davis being pepper sprayed as a moral drama that the protesters clearly won.
What is this propagandist tripe doing in Slashdot? I don't idealize anything in the Occupy movement, and am part of the growing 65% who feel the same way. I don't recognize it as stoic resolve, but rather unending stupidity, on the part of the protesters who refused to leave after multiple warnings by the police that it was long past time to go. I don't consider obstructing the police to be "peaceful" or "protected" protest, and if I'd been there myself with a pepper spray container the size of a small fire extinguisher I would have hosed them down myself as a lifelong lesson to quit being so stupid. There are valid ways to protest -- and this was none of them. Those protesters won nothing in my book.
As evidence I cite MegaMillions, Power Ball, and the continued existence of Vegas with its billion dollar hotel/casinos.
You don't understand that buying a lottery ticket is more than just owning an almost non-existent chance of winning enough money to actually change your life. It is the opportunity to spend a buck or two and spend several very pleasant days fantasizing about what life would be like if you do win. Seen that way, it isn't a bad bargain at all. It's certainly better than spending that couple of bucks on some high fructose corn syrup favored carbonated water that's tough on your liver, metabolism, and overall health.
even with the discount it's $10 for 13 cakes that have a total ingredient cost of, I would guess, less than a couple of dollars. It seems like she should be able to make money on a deal like that, especially as she does not have to worry about the cakes going stale waiting for a sale. Also, she now has reached 8500 new customers, which was presumably the point of the whole thing. I suspect her business mistake is going into a venture where you have to sell a $2 cupcake, even when made in bulk, just to break even.
Or it could be the new business strategy:
1: Gain the notice of 8500 new customers with a major discount.
2: Gain the notice of everybody else with a news story about how screwed you were by GroupOn.
3: PROFIT!
This is only the latest GroupOn horror story, and many of them probably don't make the press. Personally I won't even use GroupOn because I feel so sorry for the retailers involved. It's a personal decision.
The next horror story will be from the people scammed by the IPO who thought that they were buying into a company that actually created something of value. Hard to believe that Google once offered billions ($5.75 billion, I believe) for this vaporware company -- and GroupOn actually turned them down. That was the luckiest turndown since Yahoo! refused Microsoft's (by today's standards) insanely generous offer.
If found guilty, putting him up against the wall and doing what you do to traitors up against the wall is fully appropriate for the damage he has done.
A 50 core chip at 1GHz is going to need to perform 20 double precision floating point ops per cycle per core to achieve 1Tflop performance. OK, so 1.2GHz cuts that down to 16flops/clock.
By your math it means that each core has a 1024-bit wide vector unit. And that means 64-bit FP, not 80-bit. Not impossible, but perhaps unlikely to ever run at theoretical max across all cores in anything but the most carefully crafted case.
next time someone in China is jailed for years for using twitter, vs a group that has suppressed rape reports, assaulted reporters and police, caused thousands of dollars in property damage and under the cover of political protests has essentially been a crime wave that has been tolerated for weeks, you mean, all the while creating some twisted twenty-first century hybrid of Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies... Moral equivalence is the devil's plaything.
Don't forget seizing public/private property (parks) and taking it for personal use under the sham of free speech and assembly. The parks belong to everyone -- not just these Occupy clowns.
It's perfectly clear that China is trying to attract the UFO's from the Plain of Nazga to their own country landing site. What else could it possibly be?
The Entrenched Interests are going to use every means, including illegal ones, to maintain and extend their hold over content that they profit from. When America was established one of the major things that they overthrew (so major that is is part of the original Constitution) was the concept of Forever Copyrights -- and they were better off for it. Those Entrenched Interests never went away however, and they try to chip away at those rights at every opportunity. We are very close to the point, if not past it, where copyright infringement becomes civil disobedience -- if not a civil duty.
I so much want some real competition for Intel. Competition that doesn't artificially limit clock speeds and fuse off perfectly good working features in order to market a dozen overlapping and conflicting SKUs at a dozen different price points. And working drivers, current standards (DirectX 11 and OpenCL for starters), and USB-3 that doesn't require a $50 cable between every device would be nice.
Who do you think you are, Johannes Caspar? Facebook doesn't respond to anyone else complaining about their high-handed actions, so why should they respond to you?
So there are your first 3 workarounds already. Tells you how effective this is all going to be. Nothing more than harder to detect when it's actually happening now.
And how hard is this compared to keeping a known original and applying it as a difference layer to the suspected altered image? That could look like a heat map.
Has Spamhaus never heard of these people? How about other spam blockers? If you ISP isn't subscribing to blocklists then maybe your issue is with them.
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The unwise, reactionary, direction-less types who tend to attach themselves to any major movement are the biggest problem the Occupiers currently have. Do you not notice how the media reports with glee the rapes, murders, etc. that occur on the Occupied territory? That's exactly what they want -- for you to be no better. If you want to be effective, don't give it to them.
Your problem is, and I have this information directly from people who participated in this very same activity in the 1960s, is that the unwise, reactionary, direction-less types, as well as those looking to party, do drugs, and hook-up with the opposite sex, are 99% of your protest numbers. Without them, the true reactionaries would be seen as too small a group to even care about. So they have to invite everybody else in in an attempt to show numbers that they don't truly possess. Running a fine Kitchen and giving out lots of free stuff at the Comfort Tent gave OWS the appearance of numbers far beyond the true reality of the dedicated.
You know, in gun verses camera, I'm betting on gun. It's bad to try to hurt me when I'm capable of hurting you much worse in return and you're only counting on my good nature not to. It's the same as rock verses gun, bottle verses gun, molotov cocktail verses gun, or even bringing a knife to a gunfight. You may survive today, but you can only afford to be wrong once.
What is this propagandist tripe doing in Slashdot? I don't idealize anything in the Occupy movement, and am part of the growing 65% who feel the same way. I don't recognize it as stoic resolve, but rather unending stupidity, on the part of the protesters who refused to leave after multiple warnings by the police that it was long past time to go. I don't consider obstructing the police to be "peaceful" or "protected" protest, and if I'd been there myself with a pepper spray container the size of a small fire extinguisher I would have hosed them down myself as a lifelong lesson to quit being so stupid. There are valid ways to protest -- and this was none of them. Those protesters won nothing in my book.
Yes, people are very bad a math.
As evidence I cite MegaMillions, Power Ball, and the continued existence of Vegas with its billion dollar hotel/casinos.
You don't understand that buying a lottery ticket is more than just owning an almost non-existent chance of winning enough money to actually change your life. It is the opportunity to spend a buck or two and spend several very pleasant days fantasizing about what life would be like if you do win. Seen that way, it isn't a bad bargain at all. It's certainly better than spending that couple of bucks on some high fructose corn syrup favored carbonated water that's tough on your liver, metabolism, and overall health.
even with the discount it's $10 for 13 cakes that have a total ingredient cost of, I would guess, less than a couple of dollars. It seems like she should be able to make money on a deal like that, especially as she does not have to worry about the cakes going stale waiting for a sale. Also, she now has reached 8500 new customers, which was presumably the point of the whole thing. I suspect her business mistake is going into a venture where you have to sell a $2 cupcake, even when made in bulk, just to break even.
Or it could be the new business strategy:
1: Gain the notice of 8500 new customers with a major discount.
2: Gain the notice of everybody else with a news story about how screwed you were by GroupOn.
3: PROFIT!
This is only the latest GroupOn horror story, and many of them probably don't make the press. Personally I won't even use GroupOn because I feel so sorry for the retailers involved. It's a personal decision.
The next horror story will be from the people scammed by the IPO who thought that they were buying into a company that actually created something of value. Hard to believe that Google once offered billions ($5.75 billion, I believe) for this vaporware company -- and GroupOn actually turned them down. That was the luckiest turndown since Yahoo! refused Microsoft's (by today's standards) insanely generous offer.
Instead he decided he knew that there were no honest men or women anywhere in that system,
and most of us know, deep down, he was right.
You may freely speak for yourself, but DO NOT speak for "most of us", because you don't.
If found guilty, putting him up against the wall and doing what you do to traitors up against the wall is fully appropriate for the damage he has done.
No kidding. People say America is a corporatist country, but even we don't do bullshit like this.
Uh, we tax tobacco users to pay for children's healthcare (SCHIP). Perhaps you can tell me the connection there.
Expect Apple to be suing them for patent, look & feel, trade dress, and anything else they can think of any time now.
Prior Art? What Prior Art?
A 50 core chip at 1GHz is going to need to perform 20 double precision floating point ops per cycle per core to achieve 1Tflop performance. OK, so 1.2GHz cuts that down to 16flops/clock.
By your math it means that each core has a 1024-bit wide vector unit. And that means 64-bit FP, not 80-bit. Not impossible, but perhaps unlikely to ever run at theoretical max across all cores in anything but the most carefully crafted case.
More proof that Apple doesn't believe in interoperable standards.
Now who is surprised?
next time someone in China is jailed for years for using twitter, vs a group that has suppressed rape reports, assaulted reporters and police, caused thousands of dollars in property damage and under the cover of political protests has essentially been a crime wave that has been tolerated for weeks, you mean, all the while creating some twisted twenty-first century hybrid of Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies... Moral equivalence is the devil's plaything.
Don't forget seizing public/private property (parks) and taking it for personal use under the sham of free speech and assembly. The parks belong to everyone -- not just these Occupy clowns.
It's perfectly clear that China is trying to attract the UFO's from the Plain of Nazga to their own country landing site. What else could it possibly be?
The Entrenched Interests are going to use every means, including illegal ones, to maintain and extend their hold over content that they profit from. When America was established one of the major things that they overthrew (so major that is is part of the original Constitution) was the concept of Forever Copyrights -- and they were better off for it. Those Entrenched Interests never went away however, and they try to chip away at those rights at every opportunity. We are very close to the point, if not past it, where copyright infringement becomes civil disobedience -- if not a civil duty.
I so much want some real competition for Intel. Competition that doesn't artificially limit clock speeds and fuse off perfectly good working features in order to market a dozen overlapping and conflicting SKUs at a dozen different price points. And working drivers, current standards (DirectX 11 and OpenCL for starters), and USB-3 that doesn't require a $50 cable between every device would be nice.
They ought to merge with Minecraft. All the blocks become Lego blocks and everybody's happy.
Who do you think you are, Johannes Caspar? Facebook doesn't respond to anyone else complaining about their high-handed actions, so why should they respond to you?
So will World of Goo run under HTML 5?
...using a proxy, VPN, or special client.
So there are your first 3 workarounds already. Tells you how effective this is all going to be. Nothing more than harder to detect when it's actually happening now.
Real-world application: Will this help me in the guess the number of gum balls in the container contests?
And how hard is this compared to keeping a known original and applying it as a difference layer to the suspected altered image? That could look like a heat map.
I wonder how much Facebook paid for this privilege?
Has Spamhaus never heard of these people? How about other spam blockers? If you ISP isn't subscribing to blocklists then maybe your issue is with them.
Is CAN-SPAM Canadian?
CAN-SPAM. Canadian-SPAM Act. Makes perfect sense to me.