to show off their acerbic wit in a series of ever increasingly scathing roasts
Suddenly I'm motivated to read reviews again. It always seemed like critics were mostly being paid off to give positive sounding reviews and you had to read really deep to find the truth. Like video games where the average review is something like 8 when it should be 5, but if you dare give a AAA title a 5 you get trolled.
Hillary had the popular vote, whether or not she came by that honestly is doubtful, but in order to invalidate the primary you would have to coordinate a revote across 50 states AND run a campaign for presidency.
She's going to win, Trump is knee deep in sabotaging his own candidacy. All Hail President Cersei, may her reign be brief.
There is also a chance that the reason is that touching a woman (with words is sometimes enough) is considered by some gender warriors an act of violence and you cannot get out of perverts register once in.
This is false. This philosophy has existed for decades and has always been an excuse.
Don't date in the women's studies pool and you're probably ok. If you go to a school that has a women's studies program, you probably have made a number of fundamental mistakes in your life, prison will guarantee you 3 squares, exercise and a job... which is more than you may see with a degree in early french history. Weigh actions appropriately.
Only those of us that don't like him see it that way. By choosing Mike Pence, for example, I thought "Surely he's trying to lose this election, way to reach across the aisle and get some fence sitters".
Meanwhile in religious conservative camps, Pence is a hero, and Trump is validating everything they ever believed. We will soon have to name each sperm.
Pornography wouldn't be such a big deal if the level of prudery in the US were toned down a bit.
We would be the 3rd english speaking country to enact anti-porn laws. Apparently we are not the biggest prudes.
This seems to just be a random invented issue to cause people to bicker. Ban alcohol, ban gambling, ban drugs, ban violent games, ban guns, ban ban ban. Cite a few people who can't control themselves as evidence that there's an epidemic. Ignore the masses of people who use the substance in question as intended, without any issues, or at least marginalize them as "people with self control" and focus on the need for laws too deal with people who have no self control.
It's certainly much easier to do than fix real problems, wherein the problems are frequently people who pay for politicians to get elected so they don't get fixed.
The whole article just smacks of fear of change frankly
Maybe, but I actively hate chip readers. They are incredibly slow compared to NFC, and I don't see them adding much security over swiping unless we also used a PIN (which is what Europeans compare this to), but we don't use a PIN because reasons.
Geo-barter. Plenty of Europeans are trying to bypass region lockouts on popular series not available to them, maybe you can work out a deal where they borrow your connection and you borrow theirs.
If laws need to be broken to serve the greater good, they need to be broken. The person in question needs to be ready to face the consequences, but pardons exist to ensure they do not have to, if they did indeed serve the greater good. Being sentenced to live in Russia for years is a punishment on its own. He should be pardoned with time served. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening, too many people approve of our insane government and want it to be crazier.
Translation: Trump would do something about importing cheap H-1B workers while Her Majesty wouldn't.
I definitely think that's part of it. But I think Trump might also harm relations with Asia, which would be devastating to most tech companies. A more sensible person with his objectives might try to come up with a plan to slowly ween us off the crack, and build a more independent America, but Trump seems to favor bold moves.
Of course Cersei will keep us on the crack until we die from it. So there's that, and having worked for tech companies I know there's an active dislike for long term planning.
So far there is nothing in them that is enforced, that isn't also backed up by one law or another or that have become directly visible to users. The minute someone puts in "you will also buy us a car" and tries to enforce it, the ensuing shitstorm will at least invalidate the clause, if not (hopefully) undermine the entire broken system.
I guess it surprises someone that "software development" includes a whole lot of people all over the country. Databases don't query themselves, and there's always a lot of corporate tools in every line of work. Software developers make them...
At least in all my professional software development, this kind of nitpicking is par for the course. The difference is that in a corporation you can strong-arm your team, either because they report to you or because you have political clout. In free software with something that has thousands or more of contributors, all you have is screaming loudly and offensively enough to get on slashdot. Then maybe people figure out that this is how they want it done.
Someone could scream back with valid arguments about why:/* This is a good idea,
* we should do this! */
I can't think of one. All I can think of is "who cares", the answer to which is "Linus" (and others), and if I don't care I should just do it their way.
The problem with democracy is that both types of people get the same number of votes per person
The problem with everything other system is that nobody really trusts the one(s) with enough time to do complete, accurate research: chances are he's involved in politics or selling something. Winston Churchill most famously pointed that out (quoting someone else). So basically this isn't a new problem, for the UK or for democracies.
I do think the English speaking world has suffered from confusion over the term "lie". Colloquially we use the word "lie" to include prevarication, equivocation and dissimulation. This seems to be true for all english speaking dialects I've encountered. And then someone asserts "such and such is a liar", and then later he has to retract that statement or face legal consequences, because such as such wasn't a liar. He no doubt was intending to deceive, but not strictly telling a falsehood. We need those words back in our every day language because there's a shitload of blatant deception in political speech such that it is impossible to make any sense of it at all, and we need to be able to call them on it.
Doesn't sequencing DNA alter the blood sample? I haven't done it for 20 years, but the original sample was destroyed after gel electrophoresis as an essential part of the process, the dna was literally broken down. Their lab is probably better than what I had in HS, but I think it they also destroy the sample.
Of course you don't use the whole blood sample, you take a bit out of it. But that also "damages" the evidence (in that there's less of it).
It seems like encryption is nothing like that, the original file is completely intact in every way. The question is whether the output is a legitimate decryption of the input. For example my "frameThisFucker.py" script takes the encrypted file, does absolutely nothing with it, and creates a directory of kiddie porn. Not all transformations are valid or useful. He is arguing that such transformations may have occurred outside the chain of evidence, essentially rendering the evidence useless.
One reason, there are others: Hillary, being utterly pwnt by Wall Street, will not be fixing the H-1B issue and hasn't chosen to make it part of her platform. Just a lot of blabber where she pretends to be stupid because she's paid to be stupid.
If I were Apple I wouldn't let you easily adjust those things either. There might be some backdoor mechanism that trips a "warranty voided" fuse, but as someone who designs silicon for a living I would not want to offer any warranty at all to people who operate parts out of spec. In addition to "minor" failures of data integrity (which are normally considered major - stop ship failures to us in the industry, but gamers may not care a lot), you are damaging the parts. Or at least some percentage of OCers are, who happened to get the fraction of parts that run hotter than usual.
You may not care if you replace every year or two, but many customers do care, particularly those that paid a premium on Apple HW - I like their stuff but I do expect it works for 5 years or more or it stops becoming worth the price.
Slashdot Mirror
to show off their acerbic wit in a series of ever increasingly scathing roasts
Suddenly I'm motivated to read reviews again. It always seemed like critics were mostly being paid off to give positive sounding reviews and you had to read really deep to find the truth. Like video games where the average review is something like 8 when it should be 5, but if you dare give a AAA title a 5 you get trolled.
Hillary had the popular vote, whether or not she came by that honestly is doubtful, but in order to invalidate the primary you would have to coordinate a revote across 50 states AND run a campaign for presidency.
She's going to win, Trump is knee deep in sabotaging his own candidacy. All Hail President Cersei, may her reign be brief.
There is also a chance that the reason is that touching a woman (with words is sometimes enough) is considered by some gender warriors an act of violence and you cannot get out of perverts register once in.
This is false. This philosophy has existed for decades and has always been an excuse.
Don't date in the women's studies pool and you're probably ok. If you go to a school that has a women's studies program, you probably have made a number of fundamental mistakes in your life, prison will guarantee you 3 squares, exercise and a job... which is more than you may see with a degree in early french history. Weigh actions appropriately.
Rather difficult to engage in sex under these conditions.
Challenge accepted.
Only those of us that don't like him see it that way. By choosing Mike Pence, for example, I thought "Surely he's trying to lose this election, way to reach across the aisle and get some fence sitters".
Meanwhile in religious conservative camps, Pence is a hero, and Trump is validating everything they ever believed. We will soon have to name each sperm.
Pornography wouldn't be such a big deal if the level of prudery in the US were toned down a bit.
We would be the 3rd english speaking country to enact anti-porn laws. Apparently we are not the biggest prudes.
This seems to just be a random invented issue to cause people to bicker. Ban alcohol, ban gambling, ban drugs, ban violent games, ban guns, ban ban ban. Cite a few people who can't control themselves as evidence that there's an epidemic. Ignore the masses of people who use the substance in question as intended, without any issues, or at least marginalize them as "people with self control" and focus on the need for laws too deal with people who have no self control.
It's certainly much easier to do than fix real problems, wherein the problems are frequently people who pay for politicians to get elected so they don't get fixed.
What alternatives?
NFC. Instant, far more secure, available for years now just stupid business types fighting over money and who gets to steal your personal info.
The whole article just smacks of fear of change frankly
Maybe, but I actively hate chip readers. They are incredibly slow compared to NFC, and I don't see them adding much security over swiping unless we also used a PIN (which is what Europeans compare this to), but we don't use a PIN because reasons.
It's really just a stupid change.
It wouldn't even necessarily be legal to try.
I was going to say "insects"
Possibly absolute lack of concern over their twitter accounts which are utterly worthless, disposable beasts.
If they're in decline, it's only because the Pebble 2 is going to get released soon and everybody is waiting for it.....
Which is also likely why the Apple Watch is in decline...september is coming.
Due to human and animal behavior, all systems are 100% guaranteed to go crony ...as quickly as we let them.
Geo-barter. Plenty of Europeans are trying to bypass region lockouts on popular series not available to them, maybe you can work out a deal where they borrow your connection and you borrow theirs.
If laws need to be broken to serve the greater good, they need to be broken. The person in question needs to be ready to face the consequences, but pardons exist to ensure they do not have to, if they did indeed serve the greater good. Being sentenced to live in Russia for years is a punishment on its own. He should be pardoned with time served. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening, too many people approve of our insane government and want it to be crazier.
Translation: Trump would do something about importing cheap H-1B workers while Her Majesty wouldn't.
I definitely think that's part of it. But I think Trump might also harm relations with Asia, which would be devastating to most tech companies. A more sensible person with his objectives might try to come up with a plan to slowly ween us off the crack, and build a more independent America, but Trump seems to favor bold moves.
Of course Cersei will keep us on the crack until we die from it. So there's that, and having worked for tech companies I know there's an active dislike for long term planning.
This was a really hard one for Trump, but based on his selection, he may have outdone himself.
I think Trump is trying to find a way of getting Hillary elected. It's a hard job too, but he's giving it his best.
So Linux secretly sends data to china?
According to many, it IS a communist plot.
So far there is nothing in them that is enforced, that isn't also backed up by one law or another or that have become directly visible to users. The minute someone puts in "you will also buy us a car" and tries to enforce it, the ensuing shitstorm will at least invalidate the clause, if not (hopefully) undermine the entire broken system.
One look at the map in TFA and this came to mind: https://xkcd.com/1138/
I guess it surprises someone that "software development" includes a whole lot of people all over the country. Databases don't query themselves, and there's always a lot of corporate tools in every line of work. Software developers make them...
At least in all my professional software development, this kind of nitpicking is par for the course. The difference is that in a corporation you can strong-arm your team, either because they report to you or because you have political clout. In free software with something that has thousands or more of contributors, all you have is screaming loudly and offensively enough to get on slashdot. Then maybe people figure out that this is how they want it done.
Someone could scream back with valid arguments about why: /* This is a good idea,
* we should do this! */
I can't think of one. All I can think of is "who cares", the answer to which is "Linus" (and others), and if I don't care I should just do it their way.
The problem with democracy is that both types of people get the same number of votes per person
The problem with everything other system is that nobody really trusts the one(s) with enough time to do complete, accurate research: chances are he's involved in politics or selling something. Winston Churchill most famously pointed that out (quoting someone else). So basically this isn't a new problem, for the UK or for democracies.
I do think the English speaking world has suffered from confusion over the term "lie". Colloquially we use the word "lie" to include prevarication, equivocation and dissimulation. This seems to be true for all english speaking dialects I've encountered. And then someone asserts "such and such is a liar", and then later he has to retract that statement or face legal consequences, because such as such wasn't a liar. He no doubt was intending to deceive, but not strictly telling a falsehood. We need those words back in our every day language because there's a shitload of blatant deception in political speech such that it is impossible to make any sense of it at all, and we need to be able to call them on it.
Doesn't sequencing DNA alter the blood sample? I haven't done it for 20 years, but the original sample was destroyed after gel electrophoresis as an essential part of the process, the dna was literally broken down. Their lab is probably better than what I had in HS, but I think it they also destroy the sample.
Of course you don't use the whole blood sample, you take a bit out of it. But that also "damages" the evidence (in that there's less of it).
It seems like encryption is nothing like that, the original file is completely intact in every way. The question is whether the output is a legitimate decryption of the input. For example my "frameThisFucker.py" script takes the encrypted file, does absolutely nothing with it, and creates a directory of kiddie porn. Not all transformations are valid or useful. He is arguing that such transformations may have occurred outside the chain of evidence, essentially rendering the evidence useless.
One reason, there are others: Hillary, being utterly pwnt by Wall Street, will not be fixing the H-1B issue and hasn't chosen to make it part of her platform. Just a lot of blabber where she pretends to be stupid because she's paid to be stupid.
If I were Apple I wouldn't let you easily adjust those things either. There might be some backdoor mechanism that trips a "warranty voided" fuse, but as someone who designs silicon for a living I would not want to offer any warranty at all to people who operate parts out of spec. In addition to "minor" failures of data integrity (which are normally considered major - stop ship failures to us in the industry, but gamers may not care a lot), you are damaging the parts. Or at least some percentage of OCers are, who happened to get the fraction of parts that run hotter than usual.
You may not care if you replace every year or two, but many customers do care, particularly those that paid a premium on Apple HW - I like their stuff but I do expect it works for 5 years or more or it stops becoming worth the price.