No, you have to understand that the vast majority of people killed by drones are innocent people, including children. And the `terrorists hiding amongst them` line is bullshit, morally, legally and just as a point of fact. Kids playing in fields, wedding parties etc. There were no "terrorists" there other than the ones flying the drones. This isn't going down well in those (and other) countries, by the way. The people ultimately supporting the drone program through paying taxes, (re)electing presidents who continue these actions etc cannot claim to be `blameless civilians` forever when there are attacks against them.
> What does that mean for your posts here? "Comments owned by the poster." Yet > you can't edit or delete posts.
You own them, so you can stick them in a book and sell them, post them on other sites etc. Because they are yours, to do with as you will. But you can't stop Slashdot from hosting them, compiling a 'best of' etc.
They are doing the needful! I'm sure stack overflow is full of "Sir, how do I start IIS? I'm getting error like password incorrect. Please to be telling me password".
Unemployed people are still helped and supported (in the UK). There are agencies who find people work. I work in IT and I signed up to a few websites and found work very quickly. I appreciate not everyone has an interest in IT and studies it in their spare time but you need to have skills which people want; you can't just roll out of bed and expect people to hand you money. If there are jobs available then people should take them, rather than decide they'd rather get paid to do nothing. And if you have to move to another area to work...well, I'd had to commute over an hour in the past (this isn't that unusual in the UK)..if you have to travel further to find a job where your skills are required then I don't see that as a problem; it's always been that way. Unemployment benefit is not something that anyone I know uses; I guess it's fine if you're struggling to find some work for a few weeks/months, but if you're just on it all the time then I suggest that 1) you're not looking very hard for a job and 2) there's some sort of problem here which unemployment benefit isn't really designed to address.
Not sure what you mean about living in a place that's too large; do you mean subsidised housing, or a town?
We're all in society together, and companies are going to want the best they can get for a given salary, and if people can't provide that then I'm not sure what you believe the answer to be. Just give up on some people (but pay them anyway) or try and foster a society which encourages people to earn an honest living even if that means study/commuting?
Exactly. If the choice, back then, have been those games plus what we have now, no-one would ever have touched the old ones. For every Tetris or Mario there were loads of really, really dire, boring games.
> With the constant battering from Hollywood, music, comics and other cultural exports, Europe is in crisis > primarily because old and new social concepts are clashing, and we are the battlefield.
What crisis? Old and new "social concepts"? Clashing? Do explain. Especially the bit where comics (which next to nobody reads in Europe) are leading the vanguard. Even (American) movies are seen as cheesy; that's why there's so much piracy - they're literally not worth paying anything to see.
I'm sorry, I see your point but you are wrong. There's no single equivalent GUI "typo" that's going to have the same disastrous consequences as typing a \ instead of a . in an rm command.
What, like the Android version of Facebook or Dropbox? Both suck hard on a 10" tablet. Why is this? Android tablets are an edge case? They think they look good? Loading up the Facebook site on a Nexus 10 brings up the mobile version. Why? I mean, it's better than the app, but what's wrong with taking me to the full version of the site? Why isn't the app better than the site?
This. I keep getting asked to try it out and fill in some sort of bland, pointless questionnaire that doesn't let me express what I feel about it.
Horrible ajaxy stuff so you have no idea if it's doing something or died. Would help if there were some sort of standard `i'm doing something` animation or indication across all sites, but no. Flashy rather than basic functionality.
Mobile sites often remove stuff that would work perfectly well on a mobile site. Mobile doesn't have to mean retarded. Switching from mobile to full and vice versa should keep me on the same page in the same session, not dump me at the front page. Stop using hover on your sites - you can't hover with most mobile devices and even on a desktop it's tedious to click on something only to observe that it was a hover and you were supposed to wait for some stupid animation to finish expanding to show you a choice you were supposed to have selected one of. Stop being clever and get the basic functionality right.
> "that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the > intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our > products for anyone's use."
So, potential backdoors are out. How about backdoor? Known, functional backdoors, not the prospect of future backdoors?
Weakening? Nobody mentioned weakening. That $10,000,000 you took from that spy organisation - that was to strengthen, not weaken.
Contract? No contract. I rewarded my daughter for tidying her room. At no point was a contract, written or otherwise, created.
The guy might be gullible, but does he think we are?
> Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription > for $20.
The problem with that (other than the horrific apostrophe abuse) is that no-one (or only a very small number of people) will pay. It needs to be zero-maintenance - just pushed out as usual as it is now. And if people don't pay, then get infected, it's going to make Microsoft look bad ("I've been a user for years....why do I have to start paying now....punishing the poor/students....last Microsoft product I ever use"). They should have thought of this earlier. They're a huge, profitable company. They can afford to keep a few people on to maintain and backport security fixes to the last product they produced which people actually like instead of forcing them to use shit like Windows 8.
Guess that's the thing now... show that TOR isn't violated and that each time someone's caught using it demonstrate/create some weakness that explains it. (Sort of like during WW2 where it was crucial we didn't betray the fact we cracked Enigma so we had to send planes over the German submarines so we had a cover for how we knew where they were so they didn't realize we pwned them).
The message is - keep using TOR kids - it's totally safe.
"Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could be a group from Europe which has a strong footing in the financial sector....could be a group of people working the financial sector.... some group of people from financial sector that created this...Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people, I think"
Pointless random guesswork aside, why do journalists feel the need to say the exact same thing 3 to 5 times in the first few paragraphs? Once is enough, surely?
Still, us English folk can only hope that a future which consists of the Scots living quietly amongst themselves and us not having to put up with that awful dirge Auld Lang Syne every bloody New Year's Eve isn't the stuff of science fiction...
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No, you have to understand that the vast majority of people killed by drones are innocent people, including children. And the `terrorists hiding amongst them` line is bullshit, morally, legally and just as a point of fact. Kids playing in fields, wedding parties etc. There were no "terrorists" there other than the ones flying the drones. This isn't going down well in those (and other) countries, by the way. The people ultimately supporting the drone program through paying taxes, (re)electing presidents who continue these actions etc cannot claim to be `blameless civilians` forever when there are attacks against them.
Lots of people say they hate them but they never give a reason either. Odd.
Or dropping acid?
> What does that mean for your posts here? "Comments owned by the poster." Yet
> you can't edit or delete posts.
You own them, so you can stick them in a book and sell them, post them on other sites etc. Because they are yours, to do with as you will. But you can't stop Slashdot from hosting them, compiling a 'best of' etc.
They are doing the needful! I'm sure stack overflow is full of "Sir, how do I start IIS? I'm getting error like password incorrect. Please to be telling me password".
Unemployed people are still helped and supported (in the UK). There are agencies who find people work. I work in IT and I signed up to a few websites and found work very quickly. I appreciate not everyone has an interest in IT and studies it in their spare time but you need to have skills which people want; you can't just roll out of bed and expect people to hand you money. If there are jobs available then people should take them, rather than decide they'd rather get paid to do nothing. And if you have to move to another area to work...well, I'd had to commute over an hour in the past (this isn't that unusual in the UK)..if you have to travel further to find a job where your skills are required then I don't see that as a problem; it's always been that way. Unemployment benefit is not something that anyone I know uses; I guess it's fine if you're struggling to find some work for a few weeks/months, but if you're just on it all the time then I suggest that 1) you're not looking very hard for a job and 2) there's some sort of problem here which unemployment benefit isn't really designed to address.
Not sure what you mean about living in a place that's too large; do you mean subsidised housing, or a town?
We're all in society together, and companies are going to want the best they can get for a given salary, and if people can't provide that then I'm not sure what you believe the answer to be. Just give up on some people (but pay them anyway) or try and foster a society which encourages people to earn an honest living even if that means study/commuting?
Poor analogy. It's more like arguing that all first generation cars were poor.
LOL, but your comment is going to upset all those people who claim - wrongly- that SSDs currently enjoy an acceptable failure rate.
Exactly. If the choice, back then, have been those games plus what we have now, no-one would ever have touched the old ones. For every Tetris or Mario there were loads of really, really dire, boring games.
This springs to mind:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/?p=4519&print=1
> With the constant battering from Hollywood, music, comics and other cultural exports, Europe is in crisis
> primarily because old and new social concepts are clashing, and we are the battlefield.
What crisis? Old and new "social concepts"? Clashing? Do explain. Especially the bit where comics (which next to nobody reads in Europe) are leading the vanguard. Even (American) movies are seen as cheesy; that's why there's so much piracy - they're literally not worth paying anything to see.
I'm sorry, I see your point but you are wrong. There's no single equivalent GUI "typo" that's going to have the same disastrous consequences as typing a \ instead of a . in an rm command.
No they just need to pick up the phone.
What, like the Android version of Facebook or Dropbox? Both suck hard on a 10" tablet. Why is this? Android tablets are an edge case? They think they look good? Loading up the Facebook site on a Nexus 10 brings up the mobile version. Why? I mean, it's better than the app, but what's wrong with taking me to the full version of the site? Why isn't the app better than the site?
This. I keep getting asked to try it out and fill in some sort of bland, pointless questionnaire that doesn't let me express what I feel about it.
Horrible ajaxy stuff so you have no idea if it's doing something or died. Would help if there were some sort of standard `i'm doing something` animation or indication across all sites, but no. Flashy rather than basic functionality.
Mobile sites often remove stuff that would work perfectly well on a mobile site. Mobile doesn't have to mean retarded. Switching from mobile to full and vice versa should keep me on the same page in the same session, not dump me at the front page. Stop using hover on your sites - you can't hover with most mobile devices and even on a desktop it's tedious to click on something only to observe that it was a hover and you were supposed to wait for some stupid animation to finish expanding to show you a choice you were supposed to have selected one of. Stop being clever and get the basic functionality right.
Weaselly language:
> "that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the
> intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our
> products for anyone's use."
So, potential backdoors are out. How about backdoor? Known, functional backdoors, not the prospect of future backdoors?
Weakening? Nobody mentioned weakening. That $10,000,000 you took from that spy organisation - that was to strengthen, not weaken.
Contract? No contract. I rewarded my daughter for tidying her room. At no point was a contract, written or otherwise, created.
The guy might be gullible, but does he think we are?
> Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription
> for $20.
The problem with that (other than the horrific apostrophe abuse) is that no-one (or only a very small number of people) will pay. It needs to be zero-maintenance - just pushed out as usual as it is now. And if people don't pay, then get infected, it's going to make Microsoft look bad ("I've been a user for years....why do I have to start paying now....punishing the poor/students....last Microsoft product I ever use"). They should have thought of this earlier. They're a huge, profitable company. They can afford to keep a few people on to maintain and backport security fixes to the last product they produced which people actually like instead of forcing them to use shit like Windows 8.
> Believe it or not, a thing gotta develop intelligence before it can discern the question
> of morality.
Guess that's why Bush had no trouble illegally invading another country.
"amirite?"
This wouldn't have been posted 10, or even 5, years ago. I don't want to see it. Please don't lower your standards.
Or because they've already been sold.
> Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in
> commodities like assassination and drugs and child pornography;
Emerge? Yeah, lets ban Bitcoin before those markets turn up.
Is that app on Google Play or do you expect me to sideload it? Lolz!
Guess that's the thing now... show that TOR isn't violated and that each time someone's caught using it demonstrate/create some weakness that explains it. (Sort of like during WW2 where it was crucial we didn't betray the fact we cracked Enigma so we had to send planes over the German submarines so we had a cover for how we knew where they were so they didn't realize we pwned them).
The message is - keep using TOR kids - it's totally safe.
"Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could be a group from Europe which has a strong footing in the financial sector....could be a group of people working the financial sector.... some group of people from financial sector that created this...Satoshi Nakamoto is a group of people, I think"
Pointless random guesswork aside, why do journalists feel the need to say the exact same thing 3 to 5 times in the first few paragraphs? Once is enough, surely?
Still, us English folk can only hope that a future which consists of the Scots living quietly amongst themselves and us not having to put up with that awful dirge Auld Lang Syne every bloody New Year's Eve isn't the stuff of science fiction...
"The reason why someone with Internet access would read a periodical in any form is that the writing is usually of much higher quality, "
Citation needed.