I know - don't feed the trolls. But this is utter BS. "While limited" - how? On my MacBook Pro, I can run the suite of Office tools; I can compile and run common X11 apps; I can even connect serial devices and do bit-level twiddling if I want. I can open a shell and run bash or ksh scripts until the cows come home. I can edit HD video and multi-track audio. So, how am I limited by using Mac OS?
And then implying that all nerds must be SM freaks - referring to the configuration contortions that Linux users often have to go through to get just about anything to work? - is just ridiculous. Because, surely, any self-respecting nerd would rather fuck around trying to get drivers to work for some video card or printer rather than just do some actual work. Seriously? Ok, maybe things are better, now, with Linux; I wouldn't know - I stopped banging my head on the table some years ago, and bought a Mac. Now? I just focus on what I need to do rather than what configuration file I need to play with to get X11 up and running.
Maybe you just don't understand that some of us have more important things to do than mine, refine and then cast the materials needed for every metal and plastic piece of the mobo, then solder them by hand, one eye blindfolded, left handed, if you're normally right handed, to be considered a "true nerd." Maybe an abacus would make you feel more manly. Knock yourself out. I'll just put my formula into a spreadsheet, get my results to my boss, and then move on to the next assignment.
In other words: I can get down and dirty with a Mac, if I need to. Most of the time, I don't need to. I'm cool with that. You keep punching those bit codes into your Altair, though; we're all real impressed.
You're absolutely correct - my bad. When our legislators craft laws that are so draconian and onerous - demanding financial information of non-US spouses; requiring scads of documents from foreign banks that serve American customers; etc. - that they compel people to give up their citizenship, that's actually "smart regs."
Sarcasm aside, "smart regs" would find a happy medium between loopholes that let trucks drive through, and squeezing people so hard that their eye jelly squirts out. Should our laws be so stringent that people prefer to give up their citizenship? Should they be so stringent that they compel people to divorce just to avoid the hassle? Should they be so stringent that foreign companies refuse to do business with Americans? How does any of that serve us, as Americans?
If Saverin hadn't been chased away, we'd get at least some residual taxes from him: he'd buy yachts, planes, houses, etc. Now, Singapore gets all that tax revenue.
It's not entirely to avoid taxes - he'll pay those regardless. It's to make it easier to do business in other countries. There have been a few articles on ex-pats, and the legal hoops through which people and foreign banks, in particular, have to jump is ridiculous, if not downright onerous. Some foreign banks have simply refused to do business with Americans because of these stupid regs. It's as if the good ol' US of A owns your ass, even if you're not in this country, or making money, here.
Schumer - my senator, unfortunately - is just grandstanding, once again, the pissbag...
Yes and no. GSM phones tend to interfere with it, worse when I use an external mic with a five foot cable (extra big antenna). Nope on aurora borealis. At least not that I can tell.
However, back in '02 or '03, I was driving out to Syracuse, NY, came up and over a ridge that opened up to a Northrop Grumman plant - IIRC - with a shit-ton of satellite dishes near I-90, and it was the weirdest thing: like a wall of sound. I turned to another person in the car - no implant - and asked if they heard it. They said, "Hear what?" I must've been picking up something from the dishes, but it was intense - almost painful.
I also pick up the anti-theft detectors at many stores and can sometimes tell when my Verizon phone switches towers: it makes a series of clicking noises. "Brrrrr-up-bup-bup." It depends on how close the phone is to my implant cables.
Having spilled Northrop Grumman's secrets, I expect the guys in black Cadillacs any moment. It's been nice knowing you all...
I've had a magnet stuck to my head for about 15 years. It's called a cochlear implant. There's a metal plate embedded in my skull, but a moderately heavy-duty magnet holds the inductor coil in place. As far as I can tell, I haven't had any problems with this.
I got it: as someone posted above, we tend to spend more on weapons than other useful stuff. So, to fund it, we tout it as a defense against alien invasion. You know, instead of waiting for those bulbous green-eyed bastards that want to suck our brains out with their probosces, we need to create a star fleet to go on the offensive.
There's gotta be at least one general or admiral who'll latch on to it and push Congress for it.
I'm sorry. What gives you the idea that America is "civil"? Is it the invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11? Is it the invasion of Afghanistan, which also had nothing to do with 9/11? The "extraordinary renditions" to Gitmo, among other places? Shit, son, just look at Republicans, nowadays, and tell me they're "civilized." I've never seen such a "civilized" bunch of homophobes, war-mongerers, and anti-anything-but-Christian fucktards.
We're not civilized; we're just the biggest fucking bullies on the block, so we get to call the shots.
Citation, please. The 1% have the means and the wherewithal to buy security to protect themselves. Those that got robbed were likely schmucks who had some money, but not enough to buy their own security force, or not enough brains to foresee the need.
I hear ya. My son broke his arm in a wrestling match. The EMTs set it in a temporary cast. The ER doctor left the temporary cast as-was, throughout the three weeks of healing. We got the bill for $500 - this was, um, a few years ago - for "fracture care" and we told the insurance company NOT to pay it: we had yet to learn what the doctor did to justify "fracture care," since he neither set the arm nor even changed the wrapping. We fought with the doctor for months, asking him to explain exactly what "fracture care" he performed until he finally dropped it.
Then, there was the time we sat in the waiting room for three hours with a gash of about four inches on my son's knee and, when we said "Fuck it," and started to leave, the ER nurse said, "You could experience all kinds of complications from not getting that treated." Well, no shit, bitch. But we're not getting it treated waiting around until the cows come home. So we left. At least we didn't get a bill for that. Interestingly, it healed just fine without the 20 or more stitches it would've needed.
Except you're not allowed to have a shack in the woods and ignore the government as well. I'm pretty sure I could manage a lifestyle similar to the frontiersman of years gone by - probably not my wife - but the government wouldn't allow me to exist without taxing me. If I own property, they'll tax me. If I don't pay the taxes, they'll take my property. I don't see how I could live and avoid the government, much as I'd like. As such, it doesn't seem so much as a "social contract" as it does an "obligation". A contract requires two willing parties. I don't the need the government, but they wouldn't leave me alone, if I wanted them to.
You could say that's roughly the time when Baby Boomers hit their stride. You know, the little spoiled brats who felt they deserved everything they wanted with no effort expended. No correlation between the two events, though.
Speak for yourself, you insensitive clod! I play semi-pro box lacrosse, race bikes, occasionally coach wrestling, and chase my grand-daughter around on the playground for kicks.
Yeah, I do spend a lot of time on my butt-tocks, but I make up for it by doing other things outside of work. Having said that, my younger brother falls more in line with the stereotype: he's fat, can't run 20 meters without stopping, and thinks walking over to the vending machine to get some Cheetos is exercise.
In between those poles, you'll find other people involved in technology. In my office, we have all kinds. It depends on your mindset: you either want to stay active and healthy, or you don't. That goes for any segment of the populace regardless of career.
I'm referring to intent. I'm sure the NY Times - or whatever paper - author could use the proper technical terms and clarify every last little detail, but they don't want to. They want to scare people by being ambiguous, using dog-whistle terms, etc. Most of us here on/. get the "DHMO" reference, but I'm sure an unscrupulous media outfit could run a scare article on it and have people freaking out like a repeat of "War of the Worlds." It's almost like shouting "Fire! Maybe!" in a crowded theater, and I'm asking why these authors aren't hauled off to jail for it.
I hate using this word as much as anyone, but, honestly, can't these fear-mongers be legitimately called terrorists? Sure, they're playing to peoples' fears and selling copy, but, still, spreading fear through either ignorance or malicious intent is pretty much the definition of terrorism.
Wouldn't Oracle be guilty of this, as well, to some extent? Oracle couldn't possibly be using a 100% "clean" environment for their product or development systems. If they use C and standard libraries, they're using, in effect, copyright-able APIs.
Yeah, for nerds. Think of the force applied to brain tissue when you slam your head into a hard object at high velocity. Force, velocity, mass, inertia, brains. Tell me these aren't the building blocks of nerd interests.
Have there been any studies done on these players? The OP shared my thoughts about getting rid of pads, making high-speed collisions less appealing. But I'm curious if there are similarities in brain damage done to players of rugby, Aussie football, etc. I mean as a result of playing the game, instead of the prerequisites of playing at all.
The rules also state that teachers have no expectation of privacy online, and that principals and other officials will inspect teachers' profiles.
How does this square with the federal legislation wending its way through the system that would prevent employers from looking at social networking data of employees?
Oddly, the rules do not address communication involving cell phones, which the Department of Education's own investigations have shown to be even more problematic.
I'll say. My small community had a teacher busted for sexting a student. And when I was a kid, way back before the 'net and cell phones, there were rumors that certain teachers would give certain students "extra-curricular" attention. One teacher in our local district ended up marrying a student. It happened after the student graduated, but there were rumors that "stuff" was going on between them while the student was still in school.
I'm not sure technology has much to do with it: if teachers and students really want to hook up, they'll find a way.
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I know - don't feed the trolls. But this is utter BS. "While limited" - how? On my MacBook Pro, I can run the suite of Office tools; I can compile and run common X11 apps; I can even connect serial devices and do bit-level twiddling if I want. I can open a shell and run bash or ksh scripts until the cows come home. I can edit HD video and multi-track audio. So, how am I limited by using Mac OS?
And then implying that all nerds must be SM freaks - referring to the configuration contortions that Linux users often have to go through to get just about anything to work? - is just ridiculous. Because, surely, any self-respecting nerd would rather fuck around trying to get drivers to work for some video card or printer rather than just do some actual work. Seriously? Ok, maybe things are better, now, with Linux; I wouldn't know - I stopped banging my head on the table some years ago, and bought a Mac. Now? I just focus on what I need to do rather than what configuration file I need to play with to get X11 up and running.
Maybe you just don't understand that some of us have more important things to do than mine, refine and then cast the materials needed for every metal and plastic piece of the mobo, then solder them by hand, one eye blindfolded, left handed, if you're normally right handed, to be considered a "true nerd." Maybe an abacus would make you feel more manly. Knock yourself out. I'll just put my formula into a spreadsheet, get my results to my boss, and then move on to the next assignment.
In other words: I can get down and dirty with a Mac, if I need to. Most of the time, I don't need to. I'm cool with that. You keep punching those bit codes into your Altair, though; we're all real impressed.
You're absolutely correct - my bad. When our legislators craft laws that are so draconian and onerous - demanding financial information of non-US spouses; requiring scads of documents from foreign banks that serve American customers; etc. - that they compel people to give up their citizenship, that's actually "smart regs."
Sarcasm aside, "smart regs" would find a happy medium between loopholes that let trucks drive through, and squeezing people so hard that their eye jelly squirts out. Should our laws be so stringent that people prefer to give up their citizenship? Should they be so stringent that they compel people to divorce just to avoid the hassle? Should they be so stringent that foreign companies refuse to do business with Americans? How does any of that serve us, as Americans?
If Saverin hadn't been chased away, we'd get at least some residual taxes from him: he'd buy yachts, planes, houses, etc. Now, Singapore gets all that tax revenue.
It's not entirely to avoid taxes - he'll pay those regardless. It's to make it easier to do business in other countries. There have been a few articles on ex-pats, and the legal hoops through which people and foreign banks, in particular, have to jump is ridiculous, if not downright onerous. Some foreign banks have simply refused to do business with Americans because of these stupid regs. It's as if the good ol' US of A owns your ass, even if you're not in this country, or making money, here.
Schumer - my senator, unfortunately - is just grandstanding, once again, the pissbag...
Yes, you could say I have a "magnetic personality."
Thanks! I'll be here all week. Do try the veal.
Yes and no. GSM phones tend to interfere with it, worse when I use an external mic with a five foot cable (extra big antenna). Nope on aurora borealis. At least not that I can tell.
However, back in '02 or '03, I was driving out to Syracuse, NY, came up and over a ridge that opened up to a Northrop Grumman plant - IIRC - with a shit-ton of satellite dishes near I-90, and it was the weirdest thing: like a wall of sound. I turned to another person in the car - no implant - and asked if they heard it. They said, "Hear what?" I must've been picking up something from the dishes, but it was intense - almost painful.
I also pick up the anti-theft detectors at many stores and can sometimes tell when my Verizon phone switches towers: it makes a series of clicking noises. "Brrrrr-up-bup-bup." It depends on how close the phone is to my implant cables.
Having spilled Northrop Grumman's secrets, I expect the guys in black Cadillacs any moment. It's been nice knowing you all...
I've had a magnet stuck to my head for about 15 years. It's called a cochlear implant. There's a metal plate embedded in my skull, but a moderately heavy-duty magnet holds the inductor coil in place. As far as I can tell, I haven't had any problems with this.
I got it: as someone posted above, we tend to spend more on weapons than other useful stuff. So, to fund it, we tout it as a defense against alien invasion. You know, instead of waiting for those bulbous green-eyed bastards that want to suck our brains out with their probosces, we need to create a star fleet to go on the offensive.
There's gotta be at least one general or admiral who'll latch on to it and push Congress for it.
Bra-VO! Well done, sir. I nearly hacked up a lung.
I'm sorry. What gives you the idea that America is "civil"? Is it the invasion of Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11? Is it the invasion of Afghanistan, which also had nothing to do with 9/11? The "extraordinary renditions" to Gitmo, among other places? Shit, son, just look at Republicans, nowadays, and tell me they're "civilized." I've never seen such a "civilized" bunch of homophobes, war-mongerers, and anti-anything-but-Christian fucktards.
We're not civilized; we're just the biggest fucking bullies on the block, so we get to call the shots.
Yeah, that stupid motherfu... Wait a minute. I don't fly anymore because of the airport bullshit involved. Is this one of those "sarcasm" things...?
So, essentially, he's fucking people over for a buck. What's the problem? Isn't that what Americans do?
Citation, please. The 1% have the means and the wherewithal to buy security to protect themselves. Those that got robbed were likely schmucks who had some money, but not enough to buy their own security force, or not enough brains to foresee the need.
I hear ya. My son broke his arm in a wrestling match. The EMTs set it in a temporary cast. The ER doctor left the temporary cast as-was, throughout the three weeks of healing. We got the bill for $500 - this was, um, a few years ago - for "fracture care" and we told the insurance company NOT to pay it: we had yet to learn what the doctor did to justify "fracture care," since he neither set the arm nor even changed the wrapping. We fought with the doctor for months, asking him to explain exactly what "fracture care" he performed until he finally dropped it.
Then, there was the time we sat in the waiting room for three hours with a gash of about four inches on my son's knee and, when we said "Fuck it," and started to leave, the ER nurse said, "You could experience all kinds of complications from not getting that treated." Well, no shit, bitch. But we're not getting it treated waiting around until the cows come home. So we left. At least we didn't get a bill for that. Interestingly, it healed just fine without the 20 or more stitches it would've needed.
Except you're not allowed to have a shack in the woods and ignore the government as well. I'm pretty sure I could manage a lifestyle similar to the frontiersman of years gone by - probably not my wife - but the government wouldn't allow me to exist without taxing me. If I own property, they'll tax me. If I don't pay the taxes, they'll take my property. I don't see how I could live and avoid the government, much as I'd like. As such, it doesn't seem so much as a "social contract" as it does an "obligation". A contract requires two willing parties. I don't the need the government, but they wouldn't leave me alone, if I wanted them to.
You could say that's roughly the time when Baby Boomers hit their stride. You know, the little spoiled brats who felt they deserved everything they wanted with no effort expended. No correlation between the two events, though.
Die, Boomers - just fucking die...
Speak for yourself, you insensitive clod! I play semi-pro box lacrosse, race bikes, occasionally coach wrestling, and chase my grand-daughter around on the playground for kicks.
Yeah, I do spend a lot of time on my butt-tocks, but I make up for it by doing other things outside of work. Having said that, my younger brother falls more in line with the stereotype: he's fat, can't run 20 meters without stopping, and thinks walking over to the vending machine to get some Cheetos is exercise.
In between those poles, you'll find other people involved in technology. In my office, we have all kinds. It depends on your mindset: you either want to stay active and healthy, or you don't. That goes for any segment of the populace regardless of career.
Seagal was not a SEAL. My brother was and trained Seagal for one of his movies; I think the one on the ship. I don't know - they're all the same.
I go across at the Peace Bridge, in Fort Erie. Last time through, it went like this:
Him: "Where ya going?"
Me: "Six Nations, for a lacrosse game."
Him: "Staying overnight?"
Me: "Nope."
HIm: "Ok"
Me: "Thanks."
It would've been better if we'd won the game, but at least Customs didn't give me any crap.
I'm referring to intent. I'm sure the NY Times - or whatever paper - author could use the proper technical terms and clarify every last little detail, but they don't want to. They want to scare people by being ambiguous, using dog-whistle terms, etc. Most of us here on /. get the "DHMO" reference, but I'm sure an unscrupulous media outfit could run a scare article on it and have people freaking out like a repeat of "War of the Worlds." It's almost like shouting "Fire! Maybe!" in a crowded theater, and I'm asking why these authors aren't hauled off to jail for it.
I hate using this word as much as anyone, but, honestly, can't these fear-mongers be legitimately called terrorists? Sure, they're playing to peoples' fears and selling copy, but, still, spreading fear through either ignorance or malicious intent is pretty much the definition of terrorism.
Why aren't we hauling these jackals off to Gitmo?
And if Moe says he wants to ass-rape you or he's going to beat you senseless, are you going to be courteous and lube up for him?
Wouldn't Oracle be guilty of this, as well, to some extent? Oracle couldn't possibly be using a 100% "clean" environment for their product or development systems. If they use C and standard libraries, they're using, in effect, copyright-able APIs.
Yeah, for nerds. Think of the force applied to brain tissue when you slam your head into a hard object at high velocity. Force, velocity, mass, inertia, brains. Tell me these aren't the building blocks of nerd interests.
Have there been any studies done on these players? The OP shared my thoughts about getting rid of pads, making high-speed collisions less appealing. But I'm curious if there are similarities in brain damage done to players of rugby, Aussie football, etc. I mean as a result of playing the game, instead of the prerequisites of playing at all.
How does this square with the federal legislation wending its way through the system that would prevent employers from looking at social networking data of employees?
I'll say. My small community had a teacher busted for sexting a student. And when I was a kid, way back before the 'net and cell phones, there were rumors that certain teachers would give certain students "extra-curricular" attention. One teacher in our local district ended up marrying a student. It happened after the student graduated, but there were rumors that "stuff" was going on between them while the student was still in school.
I'm not sure technology has much to do with it: if teachers and students really want to hook up, they'll find a way.