Atheism is a religion for most who 'believe' in it.
There are plenty of actual atheists in the world, but any one who you talk to that informs you that they are atheist and then continues to discuss religion with you or more importantly, debate the issue... well, they're just religious in a different way and too ignorant to recognize it.
And for those who choose to respond to this:
I have no problem with religion or lack of religion. What I detest is asshole, self described 'atheists' who have the need to inform religious people that they are stupid for believing in fairy tales and having faith. All at the same time, they have no problem believing in things in science that they only know about because someone else told them it works that way and they take it on faith that it works that way because it fits well in their world view without actually understanding why it works that way or actually being able to prove it. When you start acting like what you have faith in is better than what someone else has faith in... but are too stupid to realize you're doing the exact same thing... then you're just a religious nut job, even if your particular religion is that of science.
Science is based on fact. Religion (in ALL forms) is not. Talking about religion and science like they are related is like talking about apple sauce and gasoline being related. Yea, technically they are because we're all in the same universe, but you're a fucking idiot if you're mixing the two together for any reason what so ever. There is no actual relationship between religion and science, they are entirely different things that can neither confirm each other, or deny each other.
Then you've talked to people in some other industry.
First things first: Professors aren't doing shit in the industry. They couldn't do it, thats why they became professors. Those who can't do... teach. Once you get out of school and join the real world, you'll learn just how out of touch they ALL are. Yours aren't special.
Second: High level environments ARE NOT easier to debug than an AVR. You have ALL THE SAME TOOLS for working on an AVR including debuggers that rate as the best on the planet. AVR's dev tools for example are Visual Studio and GCC. You won't find better debugging tools anywhere, period.
You won't be dealing with layer after layer of abstraction when working with an AVR. Theres no OS in the way to misbehave in some strange unexpected way. There are no middle where frameworks on top of frameworks because everyone had to reinvent the wheel.
Do you know the first quads and 'drones' outside of the military... ran on AVR? Do you know that our current F35s in production... have hundreds of AVRs in them?
Oh and for reference: I've written an RTOS for AVR, and several others (ones that do useful things) will run on it, so if thats the tool you need... you can do it on the AVR as well.
The reality of it is, while you're just too ignorant about the subject to know it, I bet you have more AVR processors in your home than any other type of CPU, by at least one, probably 2 orders of magnitude. Sorry, but you have no idea how pervasive tiny, simple, AVR processors are. And this post is JUST ABOUT AVR processors, I'm ignoring all the other ones in the same class like PICs and others that are as popular or more in some cases.
You don't run an OS unless you have to when you need reliability.
Your alarm clock doesn't run a RTOS. It runs some PIC assembly. And I can actually write AVR assembly for something like an alarm clock faster than 99.9% of the devs of the world could do it in a high level language, with fewer bugs since I actually know what my code is doing and higher level devs don't have anything more than documentation in most cases. They may have the source, but if you have to dig into your framework's source... you're already losing massive amounts of time.
My advice to you, when you walk into your first job interview... try to keep your mouth shut and learn from the people you're talking to, because if you speak... you're just going to look stupid.
You don't know what happened in Charolette. You know whats been sensationalized on the news. Beyond that, you have no clue.
You also have no clue what about the transgender law or 'red neck crime' other than what you heard on the news and read on the Internet, which has been sensationalized and blown out of proportion in all cases.
You've also showed your own ignorance and prejudice. You want to pretend to be all uppity and cultured and like you care about the rights of those people in charolette or transgenders... and then you follow it up showing your just as prejudice as the next guy when you start saying stupid shit like 'red neck' crime.
You're nothing more than an ignorant hypocrite who thinks its okay to be prejudice against certain classes of people... as long as you pretend to be a moral crusader against those who might be offensive towards groups you choose to pretend to defend.
I'll ignore the fact that the full article is utterly retarded and clearly written by a religious nut job and point out something stupid the summary decided to quote.
the negative impacts that occur in some religious communities, including [...] such things as the abuse of children by some clergy, cases of fraud, and the possibility of being recruitment sites for violent extremism.
So the implication here is that only religions have employees who abuse children, conduct fraud, and recruit extremist....
If thats the way you think, you're about as dumb as dirt and are entirely engrossed in your own religion of hating on religion for made up reasons. You're as stupid as the 'god did it' people. The only difference is instead of blaming an imaginary being, you're blaming the people that believe in an imaginary being. You are in fact, doing EXACTLY the same thing you pretend to dislike so much.
You are a religious hypocrite who is too dimwitted to realize you've just followed your own silly religion.
Do religious people do these things you speak of? YES! But the rate is no different within those groups than it is anywhere else in the general population, you're just too blinded by bias to realize your ignorance.
Considering I copied it to my server and snapshotted it, I'm pretty sure Apple is going to have a REALLY hard time taking it away from me.
Unless they happen to have a SSH exploit for OpenSSH on FreeBSD that can get them to root on a system in secure level 1, where root itself can not even remove the schg flag on files, which makes them immutable by everyone including root.
Yes, your AI did better with a game... because a game is no where NEAR as complex of a scene as real life.
There is no game currently in existence that runs on silicon that is 'photorealistic'. Not a single one. Shadows alone are still pretty crappy even at the highest end compared to the real world, and water? Hahahah.
If you think you've trained your AI by using a video game, you need some training yourself.
If you think GTA is photorealistic, you are, quiet simply, a fucking idiot;)
Did this release get rid of that obnoxious fucking nag you ever god damn day to upgrade bug?
I DON'T WANT YOUR UPGRADES, STOP NAGGING ME ABOUT IT.
Oh wait... problem solved, not using iOS anymore. Not by choice mind you, I broke my iPhone 6s Plus... but after the forced upgrade or be nagged DAILY and removal of the headphone jack... I could care less.
Google ignored Warner brothers request to take down Warner brothers IP, thats a pretty safe bet when its the same company. Can you even file criminal charges against yourself in any state?
Google did not ignore Paramount complaining about a Canonical since they appear to be different companies.
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but they're walking a pretty safe line.
There are. They are codified into the DMCA itself.
The problem is that its not economical to fight back. Most of the people with BS complaints against them just want to not be in court and cant afford to fight something that may yield very little in return, especially depending on who is suing who. Me suing Warner Brothers for a illegitimate DMCA request is highly unlikely to do me any good. I can't afford the caliber of lawyer required to fight it for the time it takes to do so.
When a DMCA request is issued against your site, you respond to your provider with an appropriate response making it clear that you are in disagreement on the issue and will handle the process in court. The provider (Google in this case) is then required by law to put it back and let the courts deal with it.
Then after that... THEN the courts are involved in the process, so if you KNOW you're not violating the DMCA, you just send a DMCA dispute the the ISP/provider who 'shut you down', and by law they have to put you back until a court tells them to take you down, but you better not be infringing cause at that point you're having acknowledged the complaint and you're moving on anyway... judges get pissed when you 'know you're breaking the law', so its risky.
So the video shows a windows ten login screen and a blinky usb device... but nothing special about that
The linked article makes a bunch of claims, but doesn't substantiate any of it.
Windows doesn't provide the USB dongle with a password at any point, as implied by the article. It 'auto-installs' signed drivers already on the PC or if configured, downloads them from the internet... SIGNED DRIVERS... SIGNED BY MICROSOFT. Not just any random driver on the USB device.
Windows does not do 'auto-run'
OS X doesn't do anything implied in this article either. If it doesn't have a driver for your USB device already, it just doesn't work, with the exception of printers there isn't a magic way that it reads drivers from the USB device or random internet sites.
You hit it on the head though, universal basic income is a way for some people to buy their way out of the guilt they get from not giving a flying fuck about other human beings.
This won't help any one because in all the places that have sufficient wealth to fund this sort of crap don't need it. If your truly poor in Finland it's because you are mentally ill and refuse to do any work at all. In that case, UBI isn't going to lift you out of it. Lack of money isn't the problem for those people. They are surrounded by money constantly.
Now UBI in Kenya? Well that would make a difference... A massive difference wouldn't it. Of course... That government of course doesnt have the same resources per person to try such a thing... Do they?
People who will ACTUALLY be helped by something like UBI don't need it all their life cause a normal person will.find a way to make it out of a pit if they have the opportunity. Places that can offer UBI have opportunity already. Places that can't offer UBI... Have little or no opportunity for employment.
Things in common: Born in same galaxy (maybe) Alive Communicates with others Hasn't wiped itself out (yet)
If you add 'curious' to the list, contact would seem likely. At least one species in this neck of the woods is interested in discovering other life forms, maybe there is more than one.
Linux doesn't have to be more secure when its not a target.
From a practical perspective, there is nothing to gain by owning every Linux desktop on the planet.
Own 1% of the Windows machines on the other hand... and you've dwarfed the Linux desktop base completely.
No one cares about your linux box except you and and a bunch of fanboys who go around acting like you've got something special.
And you seem to act like an exploit is needed, no exploit is needed when social engineering or trickery will do just fine. You don't need to own a box to own the user of the box. In which case... there is nothing in Linux that makes it 'more secure' than Windows at that point. User level infiltration on a machine that has one user are just as good as owning the entire machine and there is absolutely nothing about your Firefox on Linux that makes it better than Firefox on Windows, or whatever your browser of choice is.
Couldn't agree more. $60 for 50 hours of entertainment is a real good value.
NMS is an example of what the Internet has done to software. Push it out buggy, we'll fix it later, they'll deal with it. Its in no way unique to NMS. It used to be another reason you'd buy a console instead of PC game. The console couldn't get updates so it had to have far better QA before going out the door unless you wanted to end your career. Then they all got networked... and while it wasn't over night that day one updates became the normal operating procedure, it was probably the third or forth night...
So if you bought NMS and can't play it for an hour or two, or hell, even 5 because you just kept trying to force yourself to get into it and ignore the bugs... then fine. $10/hour or more for entertainment should have better standards than that.
At 50 hours, you've played more than probably 98% of the others that purchase it. Sod off.
Its funny that people today think 80 hours of work is a lot... perhaps you should consider what humans did before modern society, even just a few hundred years ago, before you make stupid claims like that.
You're lying to yourself by pretending you'd get the same thing done in 25-30 if you ignored the 'unproductive' time... because what you're deeming 'unproductive' is almost certainly a requirement of functioning in society as a whole... which is the only reason you aren't out acting as a hunter/gatherer working pretty much every waking minute of your life just to survive.
It blows me away how people can be so oblivious to the fact that a 40 hour work week is a ridiculously short amount of actual week, especially for most of slashdot who sits behind a desk and doesn't actually 'work' more than pressing some keys and sitting through meetings.
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Other than Mylan, who is the other source?
Perhaps its not about 'belief' as much as it is about understanding plain and simple english.
Multiple != One
Atheism is a religion for most who 'believe' in it.
There are plenty of actual atheists in the world, but any one who you talk to that informs you that they are atheist and then continues to discuss religion with you or more importantly, debate the issue ... well, they're just religious in a different way and too ignorant to recognize it.
And for those who choose to respond to this:
I have no problem with religion or lack of religion. What I detest is asshole, self described 'atheists' who have the need to inform religious people that they are stupid for believing in fairy tales and having faith. All at the same time, they have no problem believing in things in science that they only know about because someone else told them it works that way and they take it on faith that it works that way because it fits well in their world view without actually understanding why it works that way or actually being able to prove it. When you start acting like what you have faith in is better than what someone else has faith in ... but are too stupid to realize you're doing the exact same thing ... then you're just a religious nut job, even if your particular religion is that of science.
Science is based on fact. Religion (in ALL forms) is not. Talking about religion and science like they are related is like talking about apple sauce and gasoline being related. Yea, technically they are because we're all in the same universe, but you're a fucking idiot if you're mixing the two together for any reason what so ever. There is no actual relationship between religion and science, they are entirely different things that can neither confirm each other, or deny each other.
Then you've talked to people in some other industry.
First things first: Professors aren't doing shit in the industry. They couldn't do it, thats why they became professors. Those who can't do ... teach. Once you get out of school and join the real world, you'll learn just how out of touch they ALL are. Yours aren't special.
Second: High level environments ARE NOT easier to debug than an AVR. You have ALL THE SAME TOOLS for working on an AVR including debuggers that rate as the best on the planet. AVR's dev tools for example are Visual Studio and GCC. You won't find better debugging tools anywhere, period.
You won't be dealing with layer after layer of abstraction when working with an AVR. Theres no OS in the way to misbehave in some strange unexpected way. There are no middle where frameworks on top of frameworks because everyone had to reinvent the wheel.
Do you know the first quads and 'drones' outside of the military ... ran on AVR? Do you know that our current F35s in production ... have hundreds of AVRs in them?
Oh and for reference: I've written an RTOS for AVR, and several others (ones that do useful things) will run on it, so if thats the tool you need ... you can do it on the AVR as well.
The reality of it is, while you're just too ignorant about the subject to know it, I bet you have more AVR processors in your home than any other type of CPU, by at least one, probably 2 orders of magnitude. Sorry, but you have no idea how pervasive tiny, simple, AVR processors are. And this post is JUST ABOUT AVR processors, I'm ignoring all the other ones in the same class like PICs and others that are as popular or more in some cases.
You don't run an OS unless you have to when you need reliability.
Your alarm clock doesn't run a RTOS. It runs some PIC assembly. And I can actually write AVR assembly for something like an alarm clock faster than 99.9% of the devs of the world could do it in a high level language, with fewer bugs since I actually know what my code is doing and higher level devs don't have anything more than documentation in most cases. They may have the source, but if you have to dig into your framework's source ... you're already losing massive amounts of time.
My advice to you, when you walk into your first job interview ... try to keep your mouth shut and learn from the people you're talking to, because if you speak ... you're just going to look stupid.
You don't know what happened in Charolette. You know whats been sensationalized on the news. Beyond that, you have no clue.
You also have no clue what about the transgender law or 'red neck crime' other than what you heard on the news and read on the Internet, which has been sensationalized and blown out of proportion in all cases.
You've also showed your own ignorance and prejudice. You want to pretend to be all uppity and cultured and like you care about the rights of those people in charolette or transgenders ... and then you follow it up showing your just as prejudice as the next guy when you start saying stupid shit like 'red neck' crime.
You're nothing more than an ignorant hypocrite who thinks its okay to be prejudice against certain classes of people ... as long as you pretend to be a moral crusader against those who might be offensive towards groups you choose to pretend to defend.
Yes
I'll ignore the fact that the full article is utterly retarded and clearly written by a religious nut job and point out something stupid the summary decided to quote.
the negative impacts that occur in some religious communities, including [...] such things as the abuse of children by some clergy, cases of fraud, and the possibility of being recruitment sites for violent extremism.
So the implication here is that only religions have employees who abuse children, conduct fraud, and recruit extremist. ...
If thats the way you think, you're about as dumb as dirt and are entirely engrossed in your own religion of hating on religion for made up reasons. You're as stupid as the 'god did it' people. The only difference is instead of blaming an imaginary being, you're blaming the people that believe in an imaginary being. You are in fact, doing EXACTLY the same thing you pretend to dislike so much.
You are a religious hypocrite who is too dimwitted to realize you've just followed your own silly religion.
Do religious people do these things you speak of? YES! But the rate is no different within those groups than it is anywhere else in the general population, you're just too blinded by bias to realize your ignorance.
Considering I copied it to my server and snapshotted it, I'm pretty sure Apple is going to have a REALLY hard time taking it away from me.
Unless they happen to have a SSH exploit for OpenSSH on FreeBSD that can get them to root on a system in secure level 1, where root itself can not even remove the schg flag on files, which makes them immutable by everyone including root.
So ... its inspecting packets or transparent proxy and making decisions based on whats in the packets, meaning their analyzing everything you do.
Aren't telephone companies bound by some laws regarding privacy or something?
Seems like this would also make them liable for policing what data is sent as well.
I can't really see any way that we shouldn't be pissed off by the fact they are looking at our data in transit.
The really sad part is that you wrote a bot to do this for you
Its creepy anonymous coward stalker dude who has no life and is upset that his little gina doesn't get touched enough by his daddy.
Yes, your AI did better with a game ... because a game is no where NEAR as complex of a scene as real life.
There is no game currently in existence that runs on silicon that is 'photorealistic'. Not a single one. Shadows alone are still pretty crappy even at the highest end compared to the real world, and water? Hahahah.
If you think you've trained your AI by using a video game, you need some training yourself.
If you think GTA is photorealistic, you are, quiet simply, a fucking idiot ;)
Did this release get rid of that obnoxious fucking nag you ever god damn day to upgrade bug?
I DON'T WANT YOUR UPGRADES, STOP NAGGING ME ABOUT IT.
Oh wait ... problem solved, not using iOS anymore. Not by choice mind you, I broke my iPhone 6s Plus ... but after the forced upgrade or be nagged DAILY and removal of the headphone jack ... I could care less.
Google ignored Warner brothers request to take down Warner brothers IP, thats a pretty safe bet when its the same company. Can you even file criminal charges against yourself in any state?
Google did not ignore Paramount complaining about a Canonical since they appear to be different companies.
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but they're walking a pretty safe line.
There are. They are codified into the DMCA itself.
The problem is that its not economical to fight back. Most of the people with BS complaints against them just want to not be in court and cant afford to fight something that may yield very little in return, especially depending on who is suing who. Me suing Warner Brothers for a illegitimate DMCA request is highly unlikely to do me any good. I can't afford the caliber of lawyer required to fight it for the time it takes to do so.
When a DMCA request is issued against your site, you respond to your provider with an appropriate response making it clear that you are in disagreement on the issue and will handle the process in court. The provider (Google in this case) is then required by law to put it back and let the courts deal with it.
Then after that ... THEN the courts are involved in the process, so if you KNOW you're not violating the DMCA, you just send a DMCA dispute the the ISP/provider who 'shut you down', and by law they have to put you back until a court tells them to take you down, but you better not be infringing cause at that point you're having acknowledged the complaint and you're moving on anyway ... judges get pissed when you 'know you're breaking the law', so its risky.
How is it that Netflix can secure it's content on Roku boxes, laptops, Xbox, ps4, Android and iOS devices ... But TimeWarnerCable can't ...
Perhaps TWC and friends don't know wtf they are doing and should get the fuck out of the business of pushing cable boxes on people.
Thats their excuse ... "We can't secure apps" ... Well other people can, so you've just admitted you're not qualified to be doing what you're doing.
Now piss off with your bullshit and lies.
So the video shows a windows ten login screen and a blinky usb device ... but nothing special about that
The linked article makes a bunch of claims, but doesn't substantiate any of it.
Windows doesn't provide the USB dongle with a password at any point, as implied by the article. It 'auto-installs' signed drivers already on the PC or if configured, downloads them from the internet ... SIGNED DRIVERS ... SIGNED BY MICROSOFT. Not just any random driver on the USB device.
Windows does not do 'auto-run'
OS X doesn't do anything implied in this article either. If it doesn't have a driver for your USB device already, it just doesn't work, with the exception of printers there isn't a magic way that it reads drivers from the USB device or random internet sites.
This story is simply bullshit.
You do realize that lightening connector can carry analog signals, right? Its a soft port, it can be reconfigured for audio and/or video out.
If I didn't care, why give them money at all?
You hit it on the head though, universal basic income is a way for some people to buy their way out of the guilt they get from not giving a flying fuck about other human beings.
This won't help any one because in all the places that have sufficient wealth to fund this sort of crap don't need it. If your truly poor in Finland it's because you are mentally ill and refuse to do any work at all. In that case, UBI isn't going to lift you out of it. Lack of money isn't the problem for those people. They are surrounded by money constantly.
Now UBI in Kenya? Well that would make a difference ... A massive difference wouldn't it. Of course ... That government of course doesnt have the same resources per person to try such a thing ... Do they?
People who will ACTUALLY be helped by something like UBI don't need it all their life cause a normal person will.find a way to make it out of a pit if they have the opportunity. Places that can offer UBI have opportunity already. Places that can't offer UBI ... Have little or no opportunity for employment.
They have a bad taste in their mouth from the last episode with PPC chips?
What he said is why you don't use retarded languages that consider whitespace syntactically significant.
That's a problem with Python.
Things in common:
Born in same galaxy (maybe)
Alive
Communicates with others
Hasn't wiped itself out (yet)
If you add 'curious' to the list, contact would seem likely. At least one species in this neck of the woods is interested in discovering other life forms, maybe there is more than one.
Then you're making an ignorant assumption.
Linux doesn't have to be more secure when its not a target.
From a practical perspective, there is nothing to gain by owning every Linux desktop on the planet.
Own 1% of the Windows machines on the other hand ... and you've dwarfed the Linux desktop base completely.
No one cares about your linux box except you and and a bunch of fanboys who go around acting like you've got something special.
And you seem to act like an exploit is needed, no exploit is needed when social engineering or trickery will do just fine. You don't need to own a box to own the user of the box. In which case ... there is nothing in Linux that makes it 'more secure' than Windows at that point. User level infiltration on a machine that has one user are just as good as owning the entire machine and there is absolutely nothing about your Firefox on Linux that makes it better than Firefox on Windows, or whatever your browser of choice is.
Couldn't agree more. $60 for 50 hours of entertainment is a real good value.
NMS is an example of what the Internet has done to software. Push it out buggy, we'll fix it later, they'll deal with it. Its in no way unique to NMS. It used to be another reason you'd buy a console instead of PC game. The console couldn't get updates so it had to have far better QA before going out the door unless you wanted to end your career. Then they all got networked ... and while it wasn't over night that day one updates became the normal operating procedure, it was probably the third or forth night ...
So if you bought NMS and can't play it for an hour or two, or hell, even 5 because you just kept trying to force yourself to get into it and ignore the bugs ... then fine. $10/hour or more for entertainment should have better standards than that.
At 50 hours, you've played more than probably 98% of the others that purchase it. Sod off.
Its funny that people today think 80 hours of work is a lot ... perhaps you should consider what humans did before modern society, even just a few hundred years ago, before you make stupid claims like that.
You're lying to yourself by pretending you'd get the same thing done in 25-30 if you ignored the 'unproductive' time ... because what you're deeming 'unproductive' is almost certainly a requirement of functioning in society as a whole ... which is the only reason you aren't out acting as a hunter/gatherer working pretty much every waking minute of your life just to survive.
It blows me away how people can be so oblivious to the fact that a 40 hour work week is a ridiculously short amount of actual week, especially for most of slashdot who sits behind a desk and doesn't actually 'work' more than pressing some keys and sitting through meetings.
Your nVidia example proves my point. Highly specialized domain. Yet I'm the idiot ... perhaps one of us understands what GPUs do and the other doesn't?