You know, if you read your statements with a clear and unbiased mind, you'd see exactly how funny the whole story sounds. Its too bad you still believe it.
He's guilty of leaving the country after being instructed not to by the court, and he has been charged with such action. He fled from a criminal investigation, period.
Want to get some facts and try again or are you just going to continue worshiping him like the cult master that he is?
Perhaps when you're calling out others for being corrupt, you shouldn't be such a corrupt lying fuck yourself then eh? Assange did this to himself. No government corruption needed.
However, his actions speak far louder than his words, and his actions are screaming 'I'm a selfish attention whore who cares about no one other than myself', in which case, yea, I believe the whores he rapped over him.
When the police say 'we'd like to question you' and you run, you've admitted guilt. He's not in Nazi Germany speaking out against Da Furor, he had absolutely no reason to run other than to make it harder for them to get hold of him. He has absolutely no respect for anyone or anything, law included.
In short, he's exact the example of someone I would expect to do this sort of thing. His arrogance just got his dick in trouble.
He was never a good person, sorry to burst your bubble, you've just been manipulated.
Assange is one man. Do you believe that HE IS WIKILEAKS? I know he certainly does, but he isn't.
Guess what, there was whistle blowing before Assange, and most of the time, it wasn't done by attention whores who care more about being in the media and spending other peoples donations than actually getting the truth out. And by truth I mean one of two things, either highly edited and manipulative to the point of flat out lying releases of specific documents or say... video. Or release a whole bunch of random documents that were simply stolen for no reason other than to be embarrassing.
Open your eyes, everything he does should make it clear to you that he's not worth your respect. He's a manipulative lying fuck. He doesn't care about whistle blowing other than to further his personal career, and is demonstrating RIGHT THIS INSTANT that he cares more about financial gain than whistle blowing, and he's too stupid to realize that if you keep biting the hand that feeds you, you'll be left without food.
Don't hate Mr. Assange because he has the courage to do what you do not. Be thankful that there is somebody out there who is willing to shine the light into dark castles.
You confusing greed with courage. I wouldn't do what he did because I've got more respect for others than he does. I have this thing against blatently lying to people to manipulate them. Everything that he does is manipulative. Every 'leak' out of Wikileaks since anyone has known his name has been manipulated to further his agenda.
You worship like a hero because you're eyes are closed and you don't realize he's doing THE EXACT SAME THING he claims to be against.
I dislike him because he's a manipulative lying douche whos got a bunch of ignorant people like you wrapped around his finger. If he had courage he wouldn't have to hire hookers and then fuck them while they were sleeping without a condom, only to run off to another country when he gets called on it.
There is no evidence to support he's being framed, I wouldn't have put it past some governments, but they didn't need to, he did it on his own, and his actions at the time made it clear that he was infact involved in it.
Besides, any government that wanted to deal with him would have assassinated him long ago and by now you would have forgotten about him. Leaving him alive just lets him keep rabble rousing.
You simply do not have any idea how software works, which is ironic considering you're calling them stupid. Please realize that ALL IO, be it console, gui or file goes through the kernel right?
Your super leet little Linux box works the same way.
All apps access the kernel API in order to function. Just starting a process is an API call. To actually do anything useful on a computer, you're talking to the kernel, its what arbitrates between all of your apps. Yes, you may have a window manager doing the lifting, but in the end, the video drivers are in the kernel space, and to make any changes to the display, you gotta talk to the kernel.
The kernel delivers your keystrokes to the application.
The kernel plays sound that the application asks it too.
The kernel displays whats on your monitor.
The kernel is the only things that talks to ANY hardware on your machine directly, everything else in useland talks to it via the kernel.
All most all 'kernel exploits' are done via user land code. There are extremely rare exceptions like exploiting kernel netcode and such like the old winnuke, teardrop and all those did. Those directly exploit bugs in the kernel because the kernel is the first thing that handles all network activity in and out of the machine. Otherwise, your two options for exploiting the kernel are userland applications and kernel loadable modules. Well, if you can load a klm, you own the machine anyway, thats a feature, not an exploit.
So basically the only way any exploit happens (or the vast majority of them really) is by using a userland application to make a kernel API call that can be exploited due to a bug. The kernels job is to play police officer and make sure nothing like this happens, but, its not perfect, regardless of what OS you're running, and those bugs get found, someone crafts an exploit and figures out a good vector for delivery. That may be through a network connection via Apache or IIS (these are both userland applications) or in this case, I get you to open a word doc that materializes the exploit. It doesn't even have to be a word problem, could be an image with bad data that gets loaded by the default libraries and something weird happens there, Word is just a way to start the process.
No, he's pointing out bigotry using racism, you're just too stupid to realize how much of a bigot you are. Best part, you think you're not because you pretend to ignore certain attributes of a person because its politically incorrect to say anything about them.
In my experience, a person such as yourself who thinks that statement is racism is in fact the one who's racist, just trying to hide it.
In reality, racism exists because... different races have different attributes... this is simple fact. Most black people are in fact black. Most white people are in fact white. These are just two attributes, these generalizations about two races, but they show beyond a doubt that races have different attributes. So assuming you're still with me and haven't went off in an irate rant about how I'm a racist fuck, then at this point you must also recognize that racism is just reality.
What you have confused, like most ignorant idiots who like to call 'racism' because someone said 'black', is the difference between racism, and hate/fear and prejudice. Lets look at that last word:
Pre JUDice, like pre-judged... which sounds a lot like racism doesn't it? Well it is, except an intelligent rational person takes race attributes into account, but doesn't assume that those attributes apply to everyone in that race. An intelligent rational person can be stabbed by that black skateboarder that had a shiv in his sock instead of a gun in his waistband and still not hate all black men.
If you ignore valid stereotypes and racial attributes then you're cutting yourself out of a lot of useful information, and in all likelihood you're probably over compensating in the other direction, which is also dangerous.
If you assume that any one particular individual has the exact attributes of the stereotype, then you're also an idiot and you're going to make your way in life much more difficult than it needs to be.
The difference between you and Ethanol-fueled is that one of you is a racist who tries to cover it up, and he is just honest.
While I really wash't any good at sports, I stuck it out riding the bench for 4 years in high school and earned a varsity letter as a result. I had friends who were jocks as well as nerds.
Then you, by definition, were not a nerd.
Do you guys even know what the word means? You're clearly not nerds, you don't even know the meaning of the word your trying to use to describe yourself.
The reality of it is... your life was no different than the people you're so mad at.
What this entire post seems to have turned into is a place to whine about how people treat nerds unfairly in school.
Let me give you this amazing piece of information... EVERYONE GOT TREATED LIKE SHIT IN SCHOOL, THATS WHAT KIDS DO. YOU WERE NOT UNIQUE OR SPECIAL.
The jocks were giving EACH OTHER WEDGIES in the locker room, or at a party, you weren't unique in getting one. You just didn't witness the fact that pretty much everyone gets fucked with, insulted, mad fun of and has extremely embarassing moments.
EVERYONE in school thinks they are being dumped on, EVERYONE feels like they're looked down on by everyone else in the school, even the most popular and beautiful people in the building.
You (and everyone else because you didn't really experience anything different) just remember how much it sucked for YOU because thats whats important to YOU.
You'll find life a lot happier when you start looking at yourself rather than blaming others and thinking your so unique.
You're problem isn't that people picked on you, its that your so self centered that you'll never realized that you were treated pretty much like everyone else.
You, specifically, need to see a therapist and move on, you have some serious self confidence issues.
No, you wouldn't expect that. Well you wouldn't if you weren't so biased yourself.
You're both commenting as if religion means ignorant idiots who believe in magic, the reality of it is, there is absolutely no conflict between religion and science, the Christian Science Monitor was created to show how science doesn't rule out the existence of a higher power and it does so using science and facts themselves. I know you're confused now and think I'm a total nut job religious zealot, but thats simply because you're a zealot yourself.
All of the parents of this post just show exactly how ignorant each of you are. You think anyone who is religious is an idiot. Unfortunately for you, you've got it backwards. Its bigots such as yourselves that are idiots. Once you learn to accept that science requires you to disprove something, and start using logic, you'll have a lot less difficulty dealing with religion in a sane rational manner.
The way you are now, you're just as ignorant and stupid as religious zealots who really DO think the Earth is 6000 years old and other silly bullshit. I find it ironic that people who seem to think of themselves as educated and scientific are the ones least able to make objective assessments of things in the world rather than subjective ones. You guys are just ignorant hypocrites.
Nerd is a term that refers to an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit.[1] Nerds are generally considered to be awkward, shy and/or unattractive by most.[2] Thus, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by others, or will tend to associate with a small group of like-minded people.
Slashdot used to be news for nerds, now it seems its turned into news for douche bags that'd like to think they are nerds but don't seem to be intelligent enough to know the definition of the word.
Drones ARE in use along the border, but while I'm all for capital punishment, and Texas certainly is, even Texans don't want to randomly kill people, capital punishment is reserved for people who have taken the lives of others intentionally. While they're ALL ABOUT hang'n 'em high, thats only when its actually justified.
The drones now are used with Infrared and other support features like cameras to direct officers into catching illegal crossing so they can send them home.
For the most part these illegals are just people who want to eat and feed their family because we're better off than they are. We think our politicians are bad, you should look at theirs, then you'll have a fresh perspective. These illegals aren't evil, their just hungry and are willing to bust their ass in order to survive and help their family. The only REAL problem with Illegals is that they are illegal and send all their money back up when possible.
We can't take them ALL, which is why we have immigration controls, and we really need to stop shipping money out of the country to Mexico cause regardless of the original reason it goes there, the end result is that it ends up in the hands of drug cartels and corrupted politicians.
I remind you that unless you happen to be 'an indian', then you're family is also an immigrant, you might want to consider what would have happened had your mother and father been attacked by a drone while they were trying to escape things like 100% corrupted governments and drug cartels.
Until you've seen the outskirts of Mexico city, and all the leantos around it, I really don't think you have any idea what those people go through to get to the US.
At this point, its unlikely the threat of drone strikes would scare them, to many of these people, death would be welcome.
And yet it still fails because it's a trojan and NOT a VIRUS.
Therefore Mac's still dont get Viruses. How about instead of whining at people you tell Microsoft to stop making their OS with completely crappy security.
Sign, 12 year olds like yourself are so cute.
First off, you ignorant fucking fanboy, I posted that comment and this one from my MacBook Pro so step off you ignorant fucking fanboy. I assure you I've fogotten more about computing in the last 6 hours than you know. Stop being such a douche and get a clue.
Yes, a Trojan is not a virus, a trojan however CAN be a virus, self replication, the definition of a virus, does not mean exclusive self replication, a trojan is just a virus which requires help from a ignorant person to replicate itself. Its just another type of infection vector. I'm sorry your mind is too simply and you're too ignorant to realize this, but you'll figure it out in another 20 years.
If you don't think Macs get viruses, you need to learn how to use Google, there are plenty of Mac viruses, there is just the whole problem with the number of macs compared to the number of PCs. If you know a 100 windows users, and only 1 of them has ever gotten a virus, do you think because of the 3 mac users you know, none of them being infected means they don't get infected? You're confusing your complete ignorance and lack of experience living outside of mommies basement with Macs not getting viruses.
MSFT should run all of Office in a sandbox, etc..
Yea, because that makes computing SO fucking useful for people trying to get ACTUAL work done. I so want my PC to act just like my iPhone where its a pain in the ass to share documents between apps without ending up with multiple copies thanks to the sandboxing. Its simply not practical in the real world. If you actually did anything with people, you'd understand this.
And for the record, Numbers, Pages and Keynote... don't run in a sandbox... and all 3 have been exploited remotely (and patched by Apple)
Those amateurs at Microsoft cant write an OS with any real security.
Again, sigh. Do you realize the NT kernels security system is what SELinux would like to be? You're ignorance again confuses you. NT has FAR FAR more fine grained security than any of the BSDs. I've not been watching the SELinux development in a long time, so it MAY have caught up at this point, but I doubt it. The problem is the MS likes for people to actually be able to continue to use their stuff. Unlike Linux fanboys such as yourself, Microsoft covers normal people, who have shit to do other than sit in mommies basement and fuck around with xf86config and umpteen different window managers. Its for the people who actually have to work so that little twits such as yourself can continue to be such ignorant little fucks:)
That results in LONG times for things to change. MS has been 'fixing' their security issues since Win2k, and developer who followed MS's guidelines for secure development could write an app for Win2k and it likely would have worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box all the way to Windows 7. Too bad thats not what people built, instead devs continued to ignore the guidelines and treat the machine as if it was single user and everyone was an admin, and thats why you've had apps that have broken during service packs and new OS upgrades, and was in fact the REASON UAC came into existence, to help partially deal with all those apps that didn't listen.
Which OS are you fanboying it up for? FreeBSD? Net or Open? I hope not, considering EVERY ONE OF THEM has been exploited relatively recently and if you look at their exploits per deployed capita, I think you'll find that you'll have to pull both your foot out of your mouth and your head out of your ass. OBSD is only as impressive as their slogan, which they change every time they get exploited so they can conti
Uhm, actually, there are several countries in which gold IS the currency in certain areas. These are typically very poor african countries where the people are mining gold themselves so it makes sense for it to be their currency. It may not be an 'official' currency, but plenty of places in the world still trade based on reality rather than virtual items.
Interestingly enough, this very thing happens in Alaska as well, which is funny considering your sig. You might want to learn some more about the places you advertise.
I mean, clearly you're risking your life fighting Mexican drug cartels right here... as you call them cowards... in the safety of your own home... while you post on slashdot.
I think Anonymous is a bunch of idiots, but you're fucking retarded for calling them cowards.
Take your computer courage and STFU, you're EXACTLY like them. Big talk behind a computer, and I'm certain you'll shut up and cower in the face of actual danger.
The tsunami is something we can't do anything about, its not worth really discussing as we can't prevent it from happening. We can morn those who were lost, but thats about it. Even better/earlier warning systems would do little to make what happened less damaging. Bigger seawalls and such won't help because the next disaster will occur where their aren't any walls, or it'll do just like this time, go over the existing walls thought to be safe enough.
We can prevent nuclear plants from melting down when a tsunami occurs though in LOTs of different ways, even so simple as to not build them in the first place (which is not my recommendation, just point out the option). This gives us LOTs of things to discuss.
We don't talk about death as much as we do treatments to keep us alive as we know theres no chance in avoiding death, but we may be able to push it off a little while.
Talking about things you can control is more useful than talking about things you can't ever possibly control (okay, so maybe one day in the distant future we can control them, but certainly not at this point in time is it even worth considering)
Personally, I've experienced so much death recently that I'm glad we hear less about the actual catastrophe than we due the nuclear hiccup, cause lets face it, in the grand scheme of things, this 'accident' wasn't jack shit unless you're a paranoid nut job who thinks this is worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm sorry for their loss and suffering, but I'm getting rather depressed myself hearing about all the suffering elsewhere all the time. Sometimes I do really just want to stick my head in the sand and ignore it for a little bit. Again, no disrespect for their loss or suffering, I don't want to belittle the tragedy. I just feel the need to avoid dwelling on it, like I'm sure most of the people effected would love to do as well. If the tides are ever turned, I hope they do the same as needlessly suffering with me won't do them any good, or me for that matter.
the chemistry of instant film is tricky, and the knowledge had been dying out quickly.
Its also patented and extremely easy to find very detailed instructions for the basic processes. You won't have the same level of quality as company produced products as they not only had the patent information, they also had existing years of experience which these guys don't have.
The information however, is not lost and won't be. Thats kind of one of the points/features of the patent system. Why is it that people focus exclusively on the shitty side of patents, then completely forget them when it comes to the actual purpose they exist?
If I was doing this, I would have done it just to be a dick, not to profit. That means I'd make it run on a Mac just to go along with the 'macs don't get viruses' meme, and I'd do bit coin mining for no reason other than to devalue it into oblivion because I'm sick Of seeing silly arguments over fiat currancies versus gold backed ones.
Not everything is about monetary gain. Sometimes people are just dicks.
Sadly, idiots like you will continue to pretend politicians on your team are somehow different than the ones on the other team because they have a different mascot and color.
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"The man seems to want the world in flames" that's not true.
Really? His actions seem to indicate otherwise as he burns every bridge he crosses, sometimes he lights them on fire BEFORE he starts crossing.
You know, if you read your statements with a clear and unbiased mind, you'd see exactly how funny the whole story sounds. Its too bad you still believe it.
He's guilty of leaving the country after being instructed not to by the court, and he has been charged with such action. He fled from a criminal investigation, period.
Want to get some facts and try again or are you just going to continue worshiping him like the cult master that he is?
I don't think you call it 'throwing themselves at me' when you have to pay them to be around you.
Perhaps when you're calling out others for being corrupt, you shouldn't be such a corrupt lying fuck yourself then eh? Assange did this to himself. No government corruption needed.
If I thought that were the case, I would care.
However, his actions speak far louder than his words, and his actions are screaming 'I'm a selfish attention whore who cares about no one other than myself', in which case, yea, I believe the whores he rapped over him.
When the police say 'we'd like to question you' and you run, you've admitted guilt. He's not in Nazi Germany speaking out against Da Furor, he had absolutely no reason to run other than to make it harder for them to get hold of him. He has absolutely no respect for anyone or anything, law included.
In short, he's exact the example of someone I would expect to do this sort of thing. His arrogance just got his dick in trouble.
He was never a good person, sorry to burst your bubble, you've just been manipulated.
Assange is one man. Do you believe that HE IS WIKILEAKS? I know he certainly does, but he isn't.
Guess what, there was whistle blowing before Assange, and most of the time, it wasn't done by attention whores who care more about being in the media and spending other peoples donations than actually getting the truth out. And by truth I mean one of two things, either highly edited and manipulative to the point of flat out lying releases of specific documents or say ... video. Or release a whole bunch of random documents that were simply stolen for no reason other than to be embarrassing.
Open your eyes, everything he does should make it clear to you that he's not worth your respect. He's a manipulative lying fuck. He doesn't care about whistle blowing other than to further his personal career, and is demonstrating RIGHT THIS INSTANT that he cares more about financial gain than whistle blowing, and he's too stupid to realize that if you keep biting the hand that feeds you, you'll be left without food.
Don't hate Mr. Assange because he has the courage to do what you do not. Be thankful that there is somebody out there who is willing to shine the light into dark castles.
You confusing greed with courage. I wouldn't do what he did because I've got more respect for others than he does. I have this thing against blatently lying to people to manipulate them. Everything that he does is manipulative. Every 'leak' out of Wikileaks since anyone has known his name has been manipulated to further his agenda.
You worship like a hero because you're eyes are closed and you don't realize he's doing THE EXACT SAME THING he claims to be against.
I dislike him because he's a manipulative lying douche whos got a bunch of ignorant people like you wrapped around his finger. If he had courage he wouldn't have to hire hookers and then fuck them while they were sleeping without a condom, only to run off to another country when he gets called on it.
There is no evidence to support he's being framed, I wouldn't have put it past some governments, but they didn't need to, he did it on his own, and his actions at the time made it clear that he was infact involved in it.
Besides, any government that wanted to deal with him would have assassinated him long ago and by now you would have forgotten about him. Leaving him alive just lets him keep rabble rousing.
You simply do not have any idea how software works, which is ironic considering you're calling them stupid. Please realize that ALL IO, be it console, gui or file goes through the kernel right?
Your super leet little Linux box works the same way.
All apps access the kernel API in order to function. Just starting a process is an API call. To actually do anything useful on a computer, you're talking to the kernel, its what arbitrates between all of your apps. Yes, you may have a window manager doing the lifting, but in the end, the video drivers are in the kernel space, and to make any changes to the display, you gotta talk to the kernel.
The kernel delivers your keystrokes to the application.
The kernel plays sound that the application asks it too.
The kernel displays whats on your monitor.
The kernel is the only things that talks to ANY hardware on your machine directly, everything else in useland talks to it via the kernel.
All most all 'kernel exploits' are done via user land code. There are extremely rare exceptions like exploiting kernel netcode and such like the old winnuke, teardrop and all those did. Those directly exploit bugs in the kernel because the kernel is the first thing that handles all network activity in and out of the machine. Otherwise, your two options for exploiting the kernel are userland applications and kernel loadable modules. Well, if you can load a klm, you own the machine anyway, thats a feature, not an exploit.
So basically the only way any exploit happens (or the vast majority of them really) is by using a userland application to make a kernel API call that can be exploited due to a bug. The kernels job is to play police officer and make sure nothing like this happens, but, its not perfect, regardless of what OS you're running, and those bugs get found, someone crafts an exploit and figures out a good vector for delivery. That may be through a network connection via Apache or IIS (these are both userland applications) or in this case, I get you to open a word doc that materializes the exploit. It doesn't even have to be a word problem, could be an image with bad data that gets loaded by the default libraries and something weird happens there, Word is just a way to start the process.
No, he's pointing out bigotry using racism, you're just too stupid to realize how much of a bigot you are. Best part, you think you're not because you pretend to ignore certain attributes of a person because its politically incorrect to say anything about them.
In my experience, a person such as yourself who thinks that statement is racism is in fact the one who's racist, just trying to hide it.
In reality, racism exists because ... different races have different attributes ... this is simple fact. Most black people are in fact black. Most white people are in fact white. These are just two attributes, these generalizations about two races, but they show beyond a doubt that races have different attributes. So assuming you're still with me and haven't went off in an irate rant about how I'm a racist fuck, then at this point you must also recognize that racism is just reality.
What you have confused, like most ignorant idiots who like to call 'racism' because someone said 'black', is the difference between racism, and hate/fear and prejudice. Lets look at that last word:
Pre JUDice, like pre-judged ... which sounds a lot like racism doesn't it? Well it is, except an intelligent rational person takes race attributes into account, but doesn't assume that those attributes apply to everyone in that race. An intelligent rational person can be stabbed by that black skateboarder that had a shiv in his sock instead of a gun in his waistband and still not hate all black men.
If you ignore valid stereotypes and racial attributes then you're cutting yourself out of a lot of useful information, and in all likelihood you're probably over compensating in the other direction, which is also dangerous.
If you assume that any one particular individual has the exact attributes of the stereotype, then you're also an idiot and you're going to make your way in life much more difficult than it needs to be.
The difference between you and Ethanol-fueled is that one of you is a racist who tries to cover it up, and he is just honest.
While I really wash't any good at sports, I stuck it out riding the bench for 4 years in high school and earned a varsity letter as a result. I had friends who were jocks as well as nerds.
Then you, by definition, were not a nerd.
Do you guys even know what the word means? You're clearly not nerds, you don't even know the meaning of the word your trying to use to describe yourself.
The reality of it is ... your life was no different than the people you're so mad at.
What this entire post seems to have turned into is a place to whine about how people treat nerds unfairly in school.
Let me give you this amazing piece of information ... EVERYONE GOT TREATED LIKE SHIT IN SCHOOL, THATS WHAT KIDS DO. YOU WERE NOT UNIQUE OR SPECIAL.
The jocks were giving EACH OTHER WEDGIES in the locker room, or at a party, you weren't unique in getting one. You just didn't witness the fact that pretty much everyone gets fucked with, insulted, mad fun of and has extremely embarassing moments.
EVERYONE in school thinks they are being dumped on, EVERYONE feels like they're looked down on by everyone else in the school, even the most popular and beautiful people in the building.
You (and everyone else because you didn't really experience anything different) just remember how much it sucked for YOU because thats whats important to YOU.
You'll find life a lot happier when you start looking at yourself rather than blaming others and thinking your so unique.
You're problem isn't that people picked on you, its that your so self centered that you'll never realized that you were treated pretty much like everyone else.
You, specifically, need to see a therapist and move on, you have some serious self confidence issues.
No, you wouldn't expect that. Well you wouldn't if you weren't so biased yourself.
You're both commenting as if religion means ignorant idiots who believe in magic, the reality of it is, there is absolutely no conflict between religion and science, the Christian Science Monitor was created to show how science doesn't rule out the existence of a higher power and it does so using science and facts themselves. I know you're confused now and think I'm a total nut job religious zealot, but thats simply because you're a zealot yourself.
All of the parents of this post just show exactly how ignorant each of you are. You think anyone who is religious is an idiot. Unfortunately for you, you've got it backwards. Its bigots such as yourselves that are idiots. Once you learn to accept that science requires you to disprove something, and start using logic, you'll have a lot less difficulty dealing with religion in a sane rational manner.
The way you are now, you're just as ignorant and stupid as religious zealots who really DO think the Earth is 6000 years old and other silly bullshit. I find it ironic that people who seem to think of themselves as educated and scientific are the ones least able to make objective assessments of things in the world rather than subjective ones. You guys are just ignorant hypocrites.
And never will be. Nerds are unbalanced and socially inept.
You can be smart, tech savvy and geeky as shit and still be cool. Nerds can not be, by definition.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd
Nerd is a term that refers to an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit.[1] Nerds are generally considered to be awkward, shy and/or unattractive by most.[2] Thus, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by others, or will tend to associate with a small group of like-minded people.
Slashdot used to be news for nerds, now it seems its turned into news for douche bags that'd like to think they are nerds but don't seem to be intelligent enough to know the definition of the word.
Drones ARE in use along the border, but while I'm all for capital punishment, and Texas certainly is, even Texans don't want to randomly kill people, capital punishment is reserved for people who have taken the lives of others intentionally. While they're ALL ABOUT hang'n 'em high, thats only when its actually justified.
The drones now are used with Infrared and other support features like cameras to direct officers into catching illegal crossing so they can send them home.
For the most part these illegals are just people who want to eat and feed their family because we're better off than they are. We think our politicians are bad, you should look at theirs, then you'll have a fresh perspective. These illegals aren't evil, their just hungry and are willing to bust their ass in order to survive and help their family. The only REAL problem with Illegals is that they are illegal and send all their money back up when possible.
We can't take them ALL, which is why we have immigration controls, and we really need to stop shipping money out of the country to Mexico cause regardless of the original reason it goes there, the end result is that it ends up in the hands of drug cartels and corrupted politicians.
I remind you that unless you happen to be 'an indian', then you're family is also an immigrant, you might want to consider what would have happened had your mother and father been attacked by a drone while they were trying to escape things like 100% corrupted governments and drug cartels.
Until you've seen the outskirts of Mexico city, and all the leantos around it, I really don't think you have any idea what those people go through to get to the US.
At this point, its unlikely the threat of drone strikes would scare them, to many of these people, death would be welcome.
And yet it still fails because it's a trojan and NOT a VIRUS.
Therefore Mac's still dont get Viruses. How about instead of whining at people you tell Microsoft to stop making their OS with completely crappy security.
Sign, 12 year olds like yourself are so cute.
First off, you ignorant fucking fanboy, I posted that comment and this one from my MacBook Pro so step off you ignorant fucking fanboy. I assure you I've fogotten more about computing in the last 6 hours than you know. Stop being such a douche and get a clue.
Yes, a Trojan is not a virus, a trojan however CAN be a virus, self replication, the definition of a virus, does not mean exclusive self replication, a trojan is just a virus which requires help from a ignorant person to replicate itself. Its just another type of infection vector. I'm sorry your mind is too simply and you're too ignorant to realize this, but you'll figure it out in another 20 years.
If you don't think Macs get viruses, you need to learn how to use Google, there are plenty of Mac viruses, there is just the whole problem with the number of macs compared to the number of PCs. If you know a 100 windows users, and only 1 of them has ever gotten a virus, do you think because of the 3 mac users you know, none of them being infected means they don't get infected? You're confusing your complete ignorance and lack of experience living outside of mommies basement with Macs not getting viruses.
MSFT should run all of Office in a sandbox, etc..
Yea, because that makes computing SO fucking useful for people trying to get ACTUAL work done. I so want my PC to act just like my iPhone where its a pain in the ass to share documents between apps without ending up with multiple copies thanks to the sandboxing. Its simply not practical in the real world. If you actually did anything with people, you'd understand this.
And for the record, Numbers, Pages and Keynote ... don't run in a sandbox ... and all 3 have been exploited remotely (and patched by Apple)
Those amateurs at Microsoft cant write an OS with any real security.
Again, sigh. Do you realize the NT kernels security system is what SELinux would like to be? You're ignorance again confuses you. NT has FAR FAR more fine grained security than any of the BSDs. I've not been watching the SELinux development in a long time, so it MAY have caught up at this point, but I doubt it. The problem is the MS likes for people to actually be able to continue to use their stuff. Unlike Linux fanboys such as yourself, Microsoft covers normal people, who have shit to do other than sit in mommies basement and fuck around with xf86config and umpteen different window managers. Its for the people who actually have to work so that little twits such as yourself can continue to be such ignorant little fucks :)
That results in LONG times for things to change. MS has been 'fixing' their security issues since Win2k, and developer who followed MS's guidelines for secure development could write an app for Win2k and it likely would have worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box all the way to Windows 7. Too bad thats not what people built, instead devs continued to ignore the guidelines and treat the machine as if it was single user and everyone was an admin, and thats why you've had apps that have broken during service packs and new OS upgrades, and was in fact the REASON UAC came into existence, to help partially deal with all those apps that didn't listen.
Which OS are you fanboying it up for? FreeBSD? Net or Open? I hope not, considering EVERY ONE OF THEM has been exploited relatively recently and if you look at their exploits per deployed capita, I think you'll find that you'll have to pull both your foot out of your mouth and your head out of your ass. OBSD is only as impressive as their slogan, which they change every time they get exploited so they can conti
Uhm, actually, there are several countries in which gold IS the currency in certain areas. These are typically very poor african countries where the people are mining gold themselves so it makes sense for it to be their currency. It may not be an 'official' currency, but plenty of places in the world still trade based on reality rather than virtual items.
Interestingly enough, this very thing happens in Alaska as well, which is funny considering your sig. You might want to learn some more about the places you advertise.
Right, because you'd do it if you could.
I mean, clearly you're risking your life fighting Mexican drug cartels right here ... as you call them cowards ... in the safety of your own home ... while you post on slashdot.
I think Anonymous is a bunch of idiots, but you're fucking retarded for calling them cowards.
Take your computer courage and STFU, you're EXACTLY like them. Big talk behind a computer, and I'm certain you'll shut up and cower in the face of actual danger.
The tsunami is something we can't do anything about, its not worth really discussing as we can't prevent it from happening. We can morn those who were lost, but thats about it. Even better/earlier warning systems would do little to make what happened less damaging. Bigger seawalls and such won't help because the next disaster will occur where their aren't any walls, or it'll do just like this time, go over the existing walls thought to be safe enough.
We can prevent nuclear plants from melting down when a tsunami occurs though in LOTs of different ways, even so simple as to not build them in the first place (which is not my recommendation, just point out the option). This gives us LOTs of things to discuss.
We don't talk about death as much as we do treatments to keep us alive as we know theres no chance in avoiding death, but we may be able to push it off a little while.
Talking about things you can control is more useful than talking about things you can't ever possibly control (okay, so maybe one day in the distant future we can control them, but certainly not at this point in time is it even worth considering)
Personally, I've experienced so much death recently that I'm glad we hear less about the actual catastrophe than we due the nuclear hiccup, cause lets face it, in the grand scheme of things, this 'accident' wasn't jack shit unless you're a paranoid nut job who thinks this is worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm sorry for their loss and suffering, but I'm getting rather depressed myself hearing about all the suffering elsewhere all the time. Sometimes I do really just want to stick my head in the sand and ignore it for a little bit. Again, no disrespect for their loss or suffering, I don't want to belittle the tragedy. I just feel the need to avoid dwelling on it, like I'm sure most of the people effected would love to do as well. If the tides are ever turned, I hope they do the same as needlessly suffering with me won't do them any good, or me for that matter.
Yea, its not just kids, its a lot of socially inept 40 year olds living in their parents basements as well.
Yea, its funny how quickly they turn into pussies when the people they are attacking actually fight back instead of trying to respond in a legal way.
Yea, buy an IronKey, that way you know everyone will be able to get your data out after you die regardless of your password!
Seriously? Mentioning IronKey on slashdot? It can be exploited 18 different ways to Sunday, as has been posted here on MANY occasions.
Peggy is a man in the Ukraine, I see no reason why you can't be a Jennifer.
the chemistry of instant film is tricky, and the knowledge had been dying out quickly.
Its also patented and extremely easy to find very detailed instructions for the basic processes. You won't have the same level of quality as company produced products as they not only had the patent information, they also had existing years of experience which these guys don't have.
The information however, is not lost and won't be. Thats kind of one of the points/features of the patent system. Why is it that people focus exclusively on the shitty side of patents, then completely forget them when it comes to the actual purpose they exist?
If I was doing this, I would have done it just to be a dick, not to profit. That means I'd make it run on a Mac just to go along with the 'macs don't get viruses' meme, and I'd do bit coin mining for no reason other than to devalue it into oblivion because I'm sick Of seeing silly arguments over fiat currancies versus gold backed ones.
Not everything is about monetary gain. Sometimes people are just dicks.
Sadly, idiots like you will continue to pretend politicians on your team are somehow different than the ones on the other team because they have a different mascot and color.