Yes, you made a clever but utterly ignorant statement as if this is a black and white decision.
When your son or daughter gets killed because he was nice enough to release a shitload of documents that no one actually looked at to see if there was some super secret evil conspiracy or that it was just troop deployment info.
Its easy to scream 'freedom of speech' when you have no investment in it or its consequences. Its funny when people scream so loud about things that don't even affect them, as if you understand what those it does affect are going through.
I'm all for whistleblowing when theres something to blow the whistle on. Thats not what Wikileaks does. They throw anything and everything out there without regards to the damage it my cause. He wants raw impact regardless the cost. He doesn't care what he puts out or what it contains, he doesn't care who it might hurt. He's proud of the fact that he's going to be responsible for the deaths of others due to his 'leaks'... which are not leaks, he's a fucking data thief clearing house.
Plenty of people will right me of as 'one of them' I'm sure, but if you do not understand the need to keep state secrets then you really don't understand and need to keep your fucking mouth shut. I didn't save evil conspiracies, I said state secrets and they ARE different. Again, if you can't figure that out, you really need to STFU and crawl back in your basement.
Freedom of speech comes with a responsibility to use it properly, and Mr Assange wouldn't know responsible if it kicked him in the nuts with his own shoes.
Blow the whistle when theres a reason to blow it. Thats not what Wikileaks does, and thats why its a bad thing.
The principle is one that I stand by, the Wikileaks implementation however is nothing more than attention whoring with no intention what so ever of doing good, its just an easy target to get people excited and talking.
Julian Assange is an attention whoring pile of shit who doesn't give a flying fuck about righting wrongs or revealing coverups by evil corps and our governments.
He is a traitor. Not to any one country, but to the very people that support him. If you think he's great then you don't really know what he does and you're just an armchair activist who doesn't actually care but wants to pretend you do.
One more time just to make it clear. I'm all for bringing out the truth when someone innocent isn't going to be hurt for no reason other reason. I really don't care about stupid little lies if it means an innocent warrior gets to come home and be father again though. You have to take into account the big picture. If Mr Assange gave a flying fuck he'd spend a little more time weeding and effort into filtering what information is being released so that while we all sit around watching the Collateral Murder video that its actually the ones committing murder, and not the guy posting the video. Assange is more of a scumbag pile of shit than the people he claims he's exposing. That doesn't make what he does OK in any way. I'll care about Wikileaks and Assange when he stops presenting himself as such a selfish, inconsiderate, self centered cunt... or at the very least he doesn't make it painfully obvious that he doesnt' give a flying fuck about anyone other than himself and how much media whoring he can do.
Want proof? This 'Insurance File' he speaks about. Do you REALLY think he has ANYTHING AT ALL that would REALLY stop the government from disappearing him if they wanted to? There is really NOTHING he or anyone else can have that would stop them. If he REALLY has it, they'll just kill him anyway and then start mopping up the rest, and 2 years from now he'd be entirely forgotten. You really don't generally get by with blackmailing the most powerful country on the planet, ESPECIALLY when even its more powerful allies agree with the assessment.
If he was actually a threat to the government 'conspiracy'... he'd be d
Bullshit. 3D currently tricks the mind into thinking it looks like 3d using the glasses, however your mind knows something isn't right because the subtle tilt of your head, the location of the sounds (even in surround), the movement of your head from side to side while you're sitting there, the depth of field, and a million other subtle hints that your brain has evolved to use and has learned to use throughout the course of your life tell it 'hey, this looks wrong, not really sure why, but something isn't right'.
Current gives you a view from the perspective of the camera that appears 3d if you can get over the subtle cues that tell you otherwise.
As the original post said, you can't get 3D from a 2D object and while you can trick your brain into thinking it is for the most part, your brain is still aware something isn't right.
For reference: People with non-binocular vision can still perceive depth and '3D' in the real world, and it utterly fails to work at all in movies because their mind has learned to pick up on cues OTHER than binocular vision.
A single EYE may see in 2 dimensions if you want to boil it down to generic general statements, but thats just ignorant because a single eye is only a small part of a much large equation that turns into depth perception.
The same is true for sound, which is why wearing headphones when playing FPSes works better. The sounds location moves with your head so the subtle movements of your head in relation to the speakers you would listen to otherwise which would not move in relation to your head.
Your mind may be too stupid to pick up on it, but mine isn't. I doubt yours works any different than mine, one of us is just more observant...
The devices are designed so that teachers know whats own them and can easily prevent you from bringing 'cheats' into a test.
Its not about controlling what you do with your calculator you selfish fuck, the world doesn't revolve around YOU.
Its about using the calculators being a 'controlled environment' so to speak so they can be allowed into tests without allowing students to take advantage of it to the point of cheating the test.
The point is that it allows teachers a way to test that students know how to get the job done and know the steps involved rather than they can do the basic math of the problem.
TI isn't trying to sell you a calculator you can use as a GP device, TI is trying to sell you a calculator you're still allowed to use on tests, and your dumb ass keeps trying to break it so they take away the TI and tell you to bring a slide rule.
TI really is doing you a favor in their attempts, even if you're too dense to get it.
If so many people want a TI like calc for some other purpose it would seem to me that someone would create such a device.
You cry 'its our hardware we bought it' and TI, the teachers and myself hear 'stop making it so we can't cheat you assholes'.
Wow, ignorant are we? A good starting point would be the dictionary. Racism be a form of prejudice. It also may not be. It is entirely possible to be 'racist' and speak nothing but 'fact' and have no 'ill will' or hate. Racism exists for a reason. Idiots like yourself turn racism into prejudice and hate. Racism is nothing more than recognizing differences in traits between races. There is no denying different races have different traits, and theres nothing wrong with it. Prejudice is when you hold something against someone, combine the two and you have when people hold something against an entire race rather than an individual, and thats stupid and hateful and not the same thing as racism alone, but god fucking forbid your ignorant ass learns what the words he throws around means rather than ranting off like you have a clue.
Shuttleworth is just trying to be a sensationalist and its freaking insulting. Comparing infighting within the Linux community to getting lynched are we?
The fact that he even considered making such a retarded fucking statement leads me to believe he is a truely racist fuck himself.
When talking about software, race has no involvement and its either shear ignorance or raw sensationalism that is causing him to bring it up. Eitherway, he's a fucking douchebag for trying it. He needs some perspective and probably some electroshock therapy to his balls.
When we have a GNAA Linux distro, then maybe there will be some sort of racism somewhere buried in a Linux discussion, but not really. Until then anyone who uses terms like OSS or Linux in the same conversation as racism outside this discussion is more or less a moron sensationalizing something in order to get attention. The only intelligent thing to do is entirely ignore anyone who does it to cut them off so they don't get any attention.
First off, learn with the fuck racism is and how it is different from prejudice you ignorant fuck.
Next, the very thing you are bitching about is what drove OSS to where it is today. People being 'fanboys' for their favorite OS or software is what ends up making OSS projects any good. Its one of the biggest motivating factors there is.
Popularity and praise for your effort, getting people to follow you and your awesome project... that DRIVES most OSS developers, regardless of how many of them admit to it.
You shouldn't bitch to much about the very thing that got OSS to where it is today. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be better if everyone would work together for the common good, but thats just some BS cover thats thrown out with OSS as a battlecry and has little to do with actual motivation to do the work.
Pride makes OSS what it is, knowing that others will respect and admire you for your work on an OSS project. Clout. Publicity... all the things that go into the very problem your complaining about are what gave you the OS you now stand on top of Mr Shuttleworth.
Competition is what makes people put effort into progress. My team being better than your team is why I work together with my team to kick your teams ass.
Do you REALLY think Linux would be what it is today if pretty much the entire OSS world (Linux fans or not) didn't have the some of the strongest hate, disgust and prejudice against Microsoft that they do? That 'tribalism' helps unite BSD fanboys (of which I'm a proud card carrying member) and Linux fanboys together to do things to beat MS.
I suggest you be really careful what you wish for.
I'd prefer that Apple added that (telling you what permissions the code has, not letting it have more), even if they keep their approval process.
The OS asks you for permission before many operations. I'm not sure what the complete list is but it at least includes dialing, contacts and geo location. It has since it first came out.
After you say yes so many times it seems to stop asking you, not sure what the logic is there. I know Safari keeps prompting me when using location stuff on web pages like Buzz.
Before you start to tell me how wrong I am, just think about the fact that Mozilla extensions can contain XPCOM objects. XPCOM objects are usually made out of javascript for simple stuff that doesn't really need to do anything abnormal.
And then the rest are written in C++, and you get a binary, not source code in the extension.
So... if you can tell me how they are looking at the source of compiled XPCOM addons (particularly, the ones my company has published) I'll be very impressed.
But that aside, I can assure you...
They ain't check'n every line of javascript either, Bub.
Yea, except nothing is vetted on mozilla's addon collection. No one checks them before they get put on. They can come off if something is found by someone else but there is no one paid to sit there and verify BEFORE it gets put up.
... The name of the app is the second most important factual peice of information that should have been gathered. Second only after the fact that it does it.
Yes, it would be useful to know what it is called. Some non-geeks who bought into the whole 'the droid is better than the iphone' bullshit who don't realize its better for geeks, not idiots may download and install the app.
Some of those people I may know, and if I simply knew the name I could tell them not to do it.
Instead, I have to say 'the droid is known to have data stealing apps and no I can't tell you which ones suck ass, just get yourself an iPhone so apple can protect you, its far easier on all of us'
I don't want Left 4 Dead 2. I don't like it any more than the pile of shit that is MW2. My mistake for not pirating it first, next time I will, so how about you give me my money back for that instead of giving me another game I have absolutely no interest in since I've been unable to play anything online since my account looks like its owned by cheating hack.
So the article you quoted calls it the Mount Olive school board, which... is pretty much one and the same if you're in Morris county and its the only school is in Mount Olive isn't it. When more schools are added at some point in the distant future, will you finally stop trying to be a pedantic douche and think its the Morris county school board then? Considering one of the members of said school board references 'morris county' and not 'mount olive', I'd say that you're just a ramble jackass who's a shining example of the stupidity that particular school produced.
You suck at details, and apparently 5 other morons from your ignorant county do too so you got modded up.
That would be 'the middle' and is where the majority of your students should be.
If the majority of your students are getting As and Bs, your grading scale is fucked up.
A is for awesome! Well above average, a shining star, not many people should be here if any, in any single class.
B is for better than average, a few people should be here.
C is for average, most people should be here.
D is for people who didn't do all that well and should have done better to be up to par.
F is for the people who just can't do it.
What you've done is given everyone As, that should have gotten Cs. You gave a few people Cs who should have gotten Ds, and you failed the ones who should have failed.
If you have the majority of your class not getting a C then you fucked up, not them. Learn how to grade and what the fucking scale stands for then grade accordingly.
You do realize that you can feel which direction its being fired from right? Being that it only effects the skin on one side of your body your mind will automatically react to it just life if a massive heat wave from an explosion hits you.
Contrary to popular belief, just because you thought of something that wasn't specifically mentioned in a poorly written article doesn't mean your thought was actually original.
As far as running into the field of fire... well, its still better than running into the field of fire from a 50 caliber machine gun isn't it? Also you'll see the people being effected by the weapon and you're probably not going to keep running at them.
I'm fairly certain they do know a little bit more about it than you do or it would have been demonstrated effectively in public on several occasions in crowds...
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No, common sense stops most people from doing the stupid shit he does.
While the world is full of stupid people, there are only so many ignorant fucks with the intelligence of a house fly to replace Assange.
Yes, you made a clever but utterly ignorant statement as if this is a black and white decision.
When your son or daughter gets killed because he was nice enough to release a shitload of documents that no one actually looked at to see if there was some super secret evil conspiracy or that it was just troop deployment info.
Its easy to scream 'freedom of speech' when you have no investment in it or its consequences. Its funny when people scream so loud about things that don't even affect them, as if you understand what those it does affect are going through.
I'm all for whistleblowing when theres something to blow the whistle on. Thats not what Wikileaks does. They throw anything and everything out there without regards to the damage it my cause. He wants raw impact regardless the cost. He doesn't care what he puts out or what it contains, he doesn't care who it might hurt. He's proud of the fact that he's going to be responsible for the deaths of others due to his 'leaks' ... which are not leaks, he's a fucking data thief clearing house.
Plenty of people will right me of as 'one of them' I'm sure, but if you do not understand the need to keep state secrets then you really don't understand and need to keep your fucking mouth shut. I didn't save evil conspiracies, I said state secrets and they ARE different. Again, if you can't figure that out, you really need to STFU and crawl back in your basement.
Freedom of speech comes with a responsibility to use it properly, and Mr Assange wouldn't know responsible if it kicked him in the nuts with his own shoes.
Blow the whistle when theres a reason to blow it. Thats not what Wikileaks does, and thats why its a bad thing.
The principle is one that I stand by, the Wikileaks implementation however is nothing more than attention whoring with no intention what so ever of doing good, its just an easy target to get people excited and talking.
Julian Assange is an attention whoring pile of shit who doesn't give a flying fuck about righting wrongs or revealing coverups by evil corps and our governments.
He is a traitor. Not to any one country, but to the very people that support him. If you think he's great then you don't really know what he does and you're just an armchair activist who doesn't actually care but wants to pretend you do.
One more time just to make it clear. I'm all for bringing out the truth when someone innocent isn't going to be hurt for no reason other reason. I really don't care about stupid little lies if it means an innocent warrior gets to come home and be father again though. You have to take into account the big picture. If Mr Assange gave a flying fuck he'd spend a little more time weeding and effort into filtering what information is being released so that while we all sit around watching the Collateral Murder video that its actually the ones committing murder, and not the guy posting the video. Assange is more of a scumbag pile of shit than the people he claims he's exposing. That doesn't make what he does OK in any way. I'll care about Wikileaks and Assange when he stops presenting himself as such a selfish, inconsiderate, self centered cunt ... or at the very least he doesn't make it painfully obvious that he doesnt' give a flying fuck about anyone other than himself and how much media whoring he can do.
Want proof? This 'Insurance File' he speaks about. Do you REALLY think he has ANYTHING AT ALL that would REALLY stop the government from disappearing him if they wanted to? There is really NOTHING he or anyone else can have that would stop them. If he REALLY has it, they'll just kill him anyway and then start mopping up the rest, and 2 years from now he'd be entirely forgotten. You really don't generally get by with blackmailing the most powerful country on the planet, ESPECIALLY when even its more powerful allies agree with the assessment.
If he was actually a threat to the government 'conspiracy' ... he'd be d
Bullshit. 3D currently tricks the mind into thinking it looks like 3d using the glasses, however your mind knows something isn't right because the subtle tilt of your head, the location of the sounds (even in surround), the movement of your head from side to side while you're sitting there, the depth of field, and a million other subtle hints that your brain has evolved to use and has learned to use throughout the course of your life tell it 'hey, this looks wrong, not really sure why, but something isn't right'.
Current gives you a view from the perspective of the camera that appears 3d if you can get over the subtle cues that tell you otherwise.
As the original post said, you can't get 3D from a 2D object and while you can trick your brain into thinking it is for the most part, your brain is still aware something isn't right.
For reference: People with non-binocular vision can still perceive depth and '3D' in the real world, and it utterly fails to work at all in movies because their mind has learned to pick up on cues OTHER than binocular vision.
A single EYE may see in 2 dimensions if you want to boil it down to generic general statements, but thats just ignorant because a single eye is only a small part of a much large equation that turns into depth perception.
The same is true for sound, which is why wearing headphones when playing FPSes works better. The sounds location moves with your head so the subtle movements of your head in relation to the speakers you would listen to otherwise which would not move in relation to your head.
Your mind may be too stupid to pick up on it, but mine isn't. I doubt yours works any different than mine, one of us is just more observant ...
And what the person you replied to is saying is that the situation you described would be considered a broken graphics card.
The hardware shouldn't allow for that to happen, if it does, its broken. Doesn't matter if they claim its 'intentional', its still broken.
You using the program you wrote isn't the problem.
You selling it to Sally and Sam so they can use it on the test is the problem.
The devices are designed so that teachers know whats own them and can easily prevent you from bringing 'cheats' into a test.
Its not about controlling what you do with your calculator you selfish fuck, the world doesn't revolve around YOU.
Its about using the calculators being a 'controlled environment' so to speak so they can be allowed into tests without allowing students to take advantage of it to the point of cheating the test.
The point is that it allows teachers a way to test that students know how to get the job done and know the steps involved rather than they can do the basic math of the problem.
TI isn't trying to sell you a calculator you can use as a GP device, TI is trying to sell you a calculator you're still allowed to use on tests, and your dumb ass keeps trying to break it so they take away the TI and tell you to bring a slide rule.
TI really is doing you a favor in their attempts, even if you're too dense to get it.
If so many people want a TI like calc for some other purpose it would seem to me that someone would create such a device.
You cry 'its our hardware we bought it' and TI, the teachers and myself hear 'stop making it so we can't cheat you assholes'.
Wow, ignorant are we? A good starting point would be the dictionary. Racism be a form of prejudice. It also may not be. It is entirely possible to be 'racist' and speak nothing but 'fact' and have no 'ill will' or hate. Racism exists for a reason. Idiots like yourself turn racism into prejudice and hate. Racism is nothing more than recognizing differences in traits between races. There is no denying different races have different traits, and theres nothing wrong with it. Prejudice is when you hold something against someone, combine the two and you have when people hold something against an entire race rather than an individual, and thats stupid and hateful and not the same thing as racism alone, but god fucking forbid your ignorant ass learns what the words he throws around means rather than ranting off like you have a clue.
Shuttleworth is just trying to be a sensationalist and its freaking insulting. Comparing infighting within the Linux community to getting lynched are we?
The fact that he even considered making such a retarded fucking statement leads me to believe he is a truely racist fuck himself.
When talking about software, race has no involvement and its either shear ignorance or raw sensationalism that is causing him to bring it up. Eitherway, he's a fucking douchebag for trying it. He needs some perspective and probably some electroshock therapy to his balls.
When we have a GNAA Linux distro, then maybe there will be some sort of racism somewhere buried in a Linux discussion, but not really. Until then anyone who uses terms like OSS or Linux in the same conversation as racism outside this discussion is more or less a moron sensationalizing something in order to get attention. The only intelligent thing to do is entirely ignore anyone who does it to cut them off so they don't get any attention.
Funny as you may be, there is so much truth in what you say for some recent graduates ... very sad.
Sorry for being oblivious, but I don't get it. Whats the joke?
Tenure is whats wrong with the American university system
So you made this post what ... to prove him 100% correct?
First off, learn with the fuck racism is and how it is different from prejudice you ignorant fuck.
Next, the very thing you are bitching about is what drove OSS to where it is today. People being 'fanboys' for their favorite OS or software is what ends up making OSS projects any good. Its one of the biggest motivating factors there is.
Popularity and praise for your effort, getting people to follow you and your awesome project ... that DRIVES most OSS developers, regardless of how many of them admit to it.
You shouldn't bitch to much about the very thing that got OSS to where it is today. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be better if everyone would work together for the common good, but thats just some BS cover thats thrown out with OSS as a battlecry and has little to do with actual motivation to do the work.
Pride makes OSS what it is, knowing that others will respect and admire you for your work on an OSS project. Clout. Publicity ... all the things that go into the very problem your complaining about are what gave you the OS you now stand on top of Mr Shuttleworth.
Competition is what makes people put effort into progress. My team being better than your team is why I work together with my team to kick your teams ass.
Do you REALLY think Linux would be what it is today if pretty much the entire OSS world (Linux fans or not) didn't have the some of the strongest hate, disgust and prejudice against Microsoft that they do? That 'tribalism' helps unite BSD fanboys (of which I'm a proud card carrying member) and Linux fanboys together to do things to beat MS.
I suggest you be really careful what you wish for.
The OS asks you for permission before many operations. I'm not sure what the complete list is but it at least includes dialing, contacts and geo location. It has since it first came out.
After you say yes so many times it seems to stop asking you, not sure what the logic is there. I know Safari keeps prompting me when using location stuff on web pages like Buzz.
Before you start to tell me how wrong I am, just think about the fact that Mozilla extensions can contain XPCOM objects. XPCOM objects are usually made out of javascript for simple stuff that doesn't really need to do anything abnormal.
And then the rest are written in C++, and you get a binary, not source code in the extension.
So ... if you can tell me how they are looking at the source of compiled XPCOM addons (particularly, the ones my company has published) I'll be very impressed.
But that aside, I can assure you ...
They ain't check'n every line of javascript either, Bub.
You've obviously never submitted code to Mozilla before, I can assure you, that doesn't happen.
So ... you mean ... like when you want it to auto login ... like most people want their cell phone to do ... and most companies configure by default ...
Thats just how awesome the OS is and totally what I want ... my phone to feel like I'm running Windows ... firewall hassles and all.
Does Norton Anti-Virus run on Android yet? Thats about the only thing its missing.
Yea, except nothing is vetted on mozilla's addon collection. No one checks them before they get put on. They can come off if something is found by someone else but there is no one paid to sit there and verify BEFORE it gets put up.
... The name of the app is the second most important factual peice of information that should have been gathered. Second only after the fact that it does it.
Yes, it would be useful to know what it is called. Some non-geeks who bought into the whole 'the droid is better than the iphone' bullshit who don't realize its better for geeks, not idiots may download and install the app.
Some of those people I may know, and if I simply knew the name I could tell them not to do it.
Instead, I have to say 'the droid is known to have data stealing apps and no I can't tell you which ones suck ass, just get yourself an iPhone so apple can protect you, its far easier on all of us'
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Theres a Coleman camping gear commercial that shows a family out camping with the title of something like:
Coleman - The original social networking.
You still don't get it. You 'paid' to 'license' OS X, not buy it. You do not own it.
You don't get to go to the rental car place at the airport, rent a car, then use it for whatever you want because 'you paid for it'.
You don't have to 'rent a car', you can go buy one and do whatever. Likewise, you don't have to rent OS X, you can not use it.
I don't want Left 4 Dead 2. I don't like it any more than the pile of shit that is MW2. My mistake for not pirating it first, next time I will, so how about you give me my money back for that instead of giving me another game I have absolutely no interest in since I've been unable to play anything online since my account looks like its owned by cheating hack.
So the article you quoted calls it the Mount Olive school board, which ... is pretty much one and the same if you're in Morris county and its the only school is in Mount Olive isn't it. When more schools are added at some point in the distant future, will you finally stop trying to be a pedantic douche and think its the Morris county school board then? Considering one of the members of said school board references 'morris county' and not 'mount olive', I'd say that you're just a ramble jackass who's a shining example of the stupidity that particular school produced.
You suck at details, and apparently 5 other morons from your ignorant county do too so you got modded up.
Okay, so in my world, C is defined as average.
That would be 'the middle' and is where the majority of your students should be.
If the majority of your students are getting As and Bs, your grading scale is fucked up.
A is for awesome! Well above average, a shining star, not many people should be here if any, in any single class.
B is for better than average, a few people should be here.
C is for average, most people should be here.
D is for people who didn't do all that well and should have done better to be up to par.
F is for the people who just can't do it.
What you've done is given everyone As, that should have gotten Cs. You gave a few people Cs who should have gotten Ds, and you failed the ones who should have failed.
If you have the majority of your class not getting a C then you fucked up, not them. Learn how to grade and what the fucking scale stands for then grade accordingly.
You do realize that you can feel which direction its being fired from right? Being that it only effects the skin on one side of your body your mind will automatically react to it just life if a massive heat wave from an explosion hits you.
Contrary to popular belief, just because you thought of something that wasn't specifically mentioned in a poorly written article doesn't mean your thought was actually original.
As far as running into the field of fire ... well, its still better than running into the field of fire from a 50 caliber machine gun isn't it? Also you'll see the people being effected by the weapon and you're probably not going to keep running at them.
I'm fairly certain they do know a little bit more about it than you do or it would have been demonstrated effectively in public on several occasions in crowds ...