In Australia at least they have a fried vegetable patty thing that's not too bad for fast food (especially if you get them to add sweet chilli sauce). I'm no vegetarian but I eat it occasionally.
Is it not possible to change the activation phrase for your digital device? It seems to me that leaving it at the default is about as intelligent as leaving the default administrator login and password for a router
Indeed - for the "internet of things" normal common sense and learned experience has been thrown out the window. We are seeing the equivalent of script kiddies developing this stuff because the people doing it properly are seen as being too slow.
I very much doubt those people really would want you dead unless you are working at a prison. It looks a bit overblown to me. "I don't like those X" and "those X should go home", while being nasty things to say are a little different to going postal.
Now that's a Freudian slip to be proud of! Also maybe talk to some people and crack open some books AC. If you get out more and find out a bit more about the world you won't see women as being so alien and you'll see your "Why are some forms of bigotry legal, and others a crime" as ridiculous and embarrassing.
While most of what you have written fits perhaps you should get someone to explain to you how the word "religion" is used before pontificating to us. The way you've misused it is as annoying as all the hillbilly "climate change is a religion" bullshit. Fascism is politics. Politics like that can look like a cult but that's like saying an elephant looks like a very big mouse.
A database that is effectively a complex lookup table then. Also I mentioned pattern recognition as the two words after the ones you are critical of!
Try to make something simple and people get critical without even fully reading the dumbed down description - what to do when PEOPLE fail the Turing test (or did I get insulted by a 1980s Eliza bot)?
Biology and the Olympic committee disagree. One athlete who was not allowed to compete as a woman later gave birth to two children, so definitions are not perfect enough for your "fact" to be correct. Call me pedantic (because it's a tiny percentage), but you did write "fact" on something that is not.
There is no such thing as mansplaining
Stick it with "virtue signaling" in the doubleplusungood newspeak basket. It's just as stupid along with people being a "creative", being worried about the "optics" of a conversation and all kinds of other things that are said within in-groups but don't belong in a written communication unless the desire is to confuse people.
Feminism has reached its goal of equal opportunity in the west decades ago: Fact!
I look around at the total sausage-fest that is IT and notice that I see more women working in technical roles at mine sites. If you are connected with the IT "industry" in any way you are either extremely deluded or outright lying to express such an opinion as a "fact".
Maybe you kids need to grow up a bit and start wondering what your daughter will do for a job if you end up having a daughter. Surely you would want her to have as much of a chance at a decent job as if you had a son?
Wayland post going all the way back beyond 2012 to whine and spread fud about it.
With respect (which is probably entirely unearned) I was addressing all of that "X sux" misinformation at the time and correcting fanboys instead of attacking the developers who were doing what they wanted to do without creating the massive amount of hype about the project. It didn't take you long to get into the personal insults did it? You clearly are attempting to push an agenda with your misinformation.
Thing is, literal Naziism is a political position too
If you had that position should that prevent you from being employed?
he was donating money to a cause to actively harm them
Politics is like that. My local representative (who I did not vote for, but for other reasons) is a member of a mainstream political party that opposed decriminalising homosexuality twenty years ago (almost to the day in that state, a bit longer ago in my state I think). Some prominent people in that party still want to turn back the clock (eg. Senator Eric Abetz). Locking people up for being gay is a bit worse that proposition 8 isn't it? Some people express truly revolting and reactionary opinions and still call themselves conservative, but it's not a crime. If someone wants to support that bunch they shouldn't be sacked for it IMHO no matter what politics the boss has.
All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
Good men oppose actions not thought.
I'd argue that it's more important for people to be able to choose where they spend their labour
You are arguing something completely unrelated. This is about someone choosing who works for them. If they are making that choice based on what the person does outside the workplace it's unfair and intrusive IMHO.
OK - let's be very generous and go for the end of the year instead of when Ubuntu made their choice.
20th November 2013 - Wayland's Weston Received New Features Yesterday
On the "finished" window manger - beyond version 1.0, so it must be finished by your definition above.
That will not be useful since it's not meant to be used in production environnement. These feature will be implemented by gnome or Kwin when they will be ready. Weston is just a live example of how to implement a wayland compositor. Nothing more. Don't expect it to be a usable DE. It will not. There's no minimizing because there is not universal way to do it thus it don't belong in a reference compositor.
On minimising windows:
No, the protocol is not there. Wayland clients need a protocol to ask the compositor to minimize them when the user clicks on the minimize button in the window decoration. Then the compositor will aknoweledge that and effectively minimize it, with fancy animations or whatnot.
The developers were not spreading bullshit. They were being completely honest about where they were up to and working towards a goal. Why are you offsetting their excellent efforts by being a whining fanboy and revisionist? What did they ever do to you apart from give you a toy to play with?
Then you clearly either have no clue whatsoever or have some agenda to push. Wayland just did not do what Ubuntu wanted in 2013 and probably does not even do it now. Ubuntu have different goals to you. I am getting a very strong impression here that you are trying to deliberately mislead the readers for some incredibly petty reason or other. I do not think we should be doing that with software projects and should instead judge them on their actual merits.
Politics, bedroom antics, sports, reading habits, religion - none of it should be a firing offence and those bosses who think they should own people instead of employ them are the problem. I don't even know what proposition 8 is (maybe I heard but forgot) but whatever politics someone has it shouldn't matter in the workplace unless you are directly working for a political group on political matters. So you do plumbing for the Republicans? Who cares if you used to support Castro.
Maybe but your example is very different and a little bit contrived. This thing's into medieval "weregild" territory where a crime with damage gets paid off. It's not the way crimes are normally dealt with in the west. Seriously, if it's as bad as suggested why are the FBI not all over this? They've kicked up a huge fuss over far less in the past.
There's the old saying "it takes a village to teach a child". I think training a real A.I. is going to be very hard and require a lot of interaction.
In the fiction "Sword Art Online" (book 9 onward and maybe in the upcoming anime) there is a attempt at A.I. by simulating the minds of babies and getting staff to go into the simulation and raise those children - rinse and repeat for several generations thanks to an FTL style plot device of epic levels of quantum computing allowing the simulation to be sped up. That's the "bottom up" A.I. in the setting, effectively real digital people seeded by interaction with actual people. There is also "top down" A.I. in the setting which is really just a massive collection of lookup tables, pattern recognition and so on. It's can do some tasks in the setting and can fool teenagers into thinking it's intelligent but it's limited in ways a human mind isn't.
Well.... The idea is if you can declare place X a "safe space
Yes - start with a bakery. First keep the gays out and then work on the races. There's more of that bullshit going on than the massive conspiracy theory you are going on about just because blackface is not polite anymore in comedy or whatever your trivial little playing the victim gripe is. If you are "triggered" by gays then just harden up instead of complaining that nobody is putting them in prison any more.
How does one calculate the damages a company suffered by being rendered unable to generate financial reports?
Part four of this (about half way through it) has an example (about half way through it) of how ridiculous damage estimates for computer crime were "determined". http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hack... Damage of $79,449 was determined (in itemised detail) for downloading a document that could be purchased in hard copy form for $13.
Personally I think it smells like insurance fraud by blaming a convenient ex-employee for a fuckup. If it was real I think the police would be very interested and the guy wouldn't just be getting sued.
If it was real yes. He's being sued instead of being subject to a criminal investigation. I think that's an indication that there is less going on here than was claimed. If you are going to accuse an ex-employee of a crime and you are confident that they actually did it surely it's time to call the police instead of suing them? If they really did have him dead to rights I think you will find that the police would be involved - there is theft in the allegations to start with and it goes on from there into stuff that is punished with years of imprisonment.
When you have what is asserted as a "cast iron case" that makes sure it avoids going through the normal process it probably isn't (or so I'm told). Criminals of this type do exist but this thing smells very fishy.
Is it real? If so why not criminal charges? It really looks a lot like trying to blame an ex-employee for a fuckup If this was real there is a long list of law enforcement types that would be very interested.
With the greatest possible respect (I'm sure you are good at something) ambitious version numbers are not a substitute for a mature project.
So Wayland was an actual functioning, demonstrable system
Seriously? In 2013? When it couldn't even be demoed at a conference? Who told you that? Perhaps you should take a look at the mailing list archive of the time or ask someone who was paying attention at the time. It's come a very long way since 2013.
Interesting definition of "working". It was working so well at that time that Daniel Stone "forgot his cables" when it was time to present it at a conference with a few thousand linux developers with laptops and a variety of cables. Also the initial stated design goals of Wayland (linux only, single window manager hard coded in, no support of current X applications etc etc) were not compatible with what Ubuntu wanted to do. Those goals have of course changed and there's no point pretending otherwise unless you want to pointlessly kick other projects when they are down.
telling you... I have had accounts on Slashdot since nearly the beginning and marked you as a "foe" a couple of times before
I didn't have a single foe here until I made some blunt comments about Wayland a couple of years ago - so no - another incredibly obvious lie. Why are you lying like this? Also what's with the multiple sock-puppet accounts shit?
You are either jumping at shadows or projecting your own behaviour onto others if you've been running through accounts. I've only had one other account here which was under the name "Mandelbrute" and I have not used it since I lost the login details for it sometime around 2000.
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In Australia at least they have a fried vegetable patty thing that's not too bad for fast food (especially if you get them to add sweet chilli sauce). I'm no vegetarian but I eat it occasionally.
Indeed - for the "internet of things" normal common sense and learned experience has been thrown out the window. We are seeing the equivalent of script kiddies developing this stuff because the people doing it properly are seen as being too slow.
I very much doubt those people really would want you dead unless you are working at a prison. It looks a bit overblown to me.
"I don't like those X" and "those X should go home", while being nasty things to say are a little different to going postal.
Now that's a Freudian slip to be proud of!
Also maybe talk to some people and crack open some books AC. If you get out more and find out a bit more about the world you won't see women as being so alien and you'll see your "Why are some forms of bigotry legal, and others a crime" as ridiculous and embarrassing.
While most of what you have written fits perhaps you should get someone to explain to you how the word "religion" is used before pontificating to us. The way you've misused it is as annoying as all the hillbilly "climate change is a religion" bullshit. Fascism is politics. Politics like that can look like a cult but that's like saying an elephant looks like a very big mouse.
You really did go full absurd there by mentioning crimes instead of what was being discussed.
Please try again.
A database that is effectively a complex lookup table then.
Also I mentioned pattern recognition as the two words after the ones you are critical of!
Try to make something simple and people get critical without even fully reading the dumbed down description - what to do when PEOPLE fail the Turing test (or did I get insulted by a 1980s Eliza bot)?
Biology and the Olympic committee disagree. One athlete who was not allowed to compete as a woman later gave birth to two children, so definitions are not perfect enough for your "fact" to be correct. Call me pedantic (because it's a tiny percentage), but you did write "fact" on something that is not.
Stick it with "virtue signaling" in the doubleplusungood newspeak basket. It's just as stupid along with people being a "creative", being worried about the "optics" of a conversation and all kinds of other things that are said within in-groups but don't belong in a written communication unless the desire is to confuse people.
I look around at the total sausage-fest that is IT and notice that I see more women working in technical roles at mine sites. If you are connected with the IT "industry" in any way you are either extremely deluded or outright lying to express such an opinion as a "fact".
Maybe you kids need to grow up a bit and start wondering what your daughter will do for a job if you end up having a daughter. Surely you would want her to have as much of a chance at a decent job as if you had a son?
Is that all you have to write when you have been caught out in a lie? Pretend that the lie does not matter?
With respect (which is probably entirely unearned) I was addressing all of that "X sux" misinformation at the time and correcting fanboys instead of attacking the developers who were doing what they wanted to do without creating the massive amount of hype about the project.
It didn't take you long to get into the personal insults did it? You clearly are attempting to push an agenda with your misinformation.
If you had that position should that prevent you from being employed?
Politics is like that. My local representative (who I did not vote for, but for other reasons) is a member of a mainstream political party that opposed decriminalising homosexuality twenty years ago (almost to the day in that state, a bit longer ago in my state I think). Some prominent people in that party still want to turn back the clock (eg. Senator Eric Abetz). Locking people up for being gay is a bit worse that proposition 8 isn't it? Some people express truly revolting and reactionary opinions and still call themselves conservative, but it's not a crime. If someone wants to support that bunch they shouldn't be sacked for it IMHO no matter what politics the boss has.
Good men oppose actions not thought.
You are arguing something completely unrelated. This is about someone choosing who works for them. If they are making that choice based on what the person does outside the workplace it's unfair and intrusive IMHO.
On the "finished" window manger - beyond version 1.0, so it must be finished by your definition above.
On minimising windows:
The developers were not spreading bullshit. They were being completely honest about where they were up to and working towards a goal.
Why are you offsetting their excellent efforts by being a whining fanboy and revisionist? What did they ever do to you apart from give you a toy to play with?
Then you clearly either have no clue whatsoever or have some agenda to push.
Wayland just did not do what Ubuntu wanted in 2013 and probably does not even do it now. Ubuntu have different goals to you.
I am getting a very strong impression here that you are trying to deliberately mislead the readers for some incredibly petty reason or other. I do not think we should be doing that with software projects and should instead judge them on their actual merits.
Politics, bedroom antics, sports, reading habits, religion - none of it should be a firing offence and those bosses who think they should own people instead of employ them are the problem.
I don't even know what proposition 8 is (maybe I heard but forgot) but whatever politics someone has it shouldn't matter in the workplace unless you are directly working for a political group on political matters. So you do plumbing for the Republicans? Who cares if you used to support Castro.
Maybe but your example is very different and a little bit contrived.
This thing's into medieval "weregild" territory where a crime with damage gets paid off. It's not the way crimes are normally dealt with in the west.
Seriously, if it's as bad as suggested why are the FBI not all over this? They've kicked up a huge fuss over far less in the past.
There's the old saying "it takes a village to teach a child". I think training a real A.I. is going to be very hard and require a lot of interaction.
In the fiction "Sword Art Online" (book 9 onward and maybe in the upcoming anime) there is a attempt at A.I. by simulating the minds of babies and getting staff to go into the simulation and raise those children - rinse and repeat for several generations thanks to an FTL style plot device of epic levels of quantum computing allowing the simulation to be sped up. That's the "bottom up" A.I. in the setting, effectively real digital people seeded by interaction with actual people.
There is also "top down" A.I. in the setting which is really just a massive collection of lookup tables, pattern recognition and so on. It's can do some tasks in the setting and can fool teenagers into thinking it's intelligent but it's limited in ways a human mind isn't.
Yes - start with a bakery. First keep the gays out and then work on the races.
There's more of that bullshit going on than the massive conspiracy theory you are going on about just because blackface is not polite anymore in comedy or whatever your trivial little playing the victim gripe is. If you are "triggered" by gays then just harden up instead of complaining that nobody is putting them in prison any more.
Part four of this (about half way through it) has an example (about half way through it) of how ridiculous damage estimates for computer crime were "determined".
http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hack...
Damage of $79,449 was determined (in itemised detail) for downloading a document that could be purchased in hard copy form for $13.
Sadly the same sort of reasoning still applies.
Personally I think it smells like insurance fraud by blaming a convenient ex-employee for a fuckup. If it was real I think the police would be very interested and the guy wouldn't just be getting sued.
If it was real yes.
He's being sued instead of being subject to a criminal investigation. I think that's an indication that there is less going on here than was claimed. If you are going to accuse an ex-employee of a crime and you are confident that they actually did it surely it's time to call the police instead of suing them?
If they really did have him dead to rights I think you will find that the police would be involved - there is theft in the allegations to start with and it goes on from there into stuff that is punished with years of imprisonment.
When you have what is asserted as a "cast iron case" that makes sure it avoids going through the normal process it probably isn't (or so I'm told).
Criminals of this type do exist but this thing smells very fishy.
Is it real? If so why not criminal charges?
It really looks a lot like trying to blame an ex-employee for a fuckup If this was real there is a long list of law enforcement types that would be very interested.
Seriously? In 2013? When it couldn't even be demoed at a conference? Who told you that? Perhaps you should take a look at the mailing list archive of the time or ask someone who was paying attention at the time.
It's come a very long way since 2013.
Interesting definition of "working". It was working so well at that time that Daniel Stone "forgot his cables" when it was time to present it at a conference with a few thousand linux developers with laptops and a variety of cables.
Also the initial stated design goals of Wayland (linux only, single window manager hard coded in, no support of current X applications etc etc) were not compatible with what Ubuntu wanted to do. Those goals have of course changed and there's no point pretending otherwise unless you want to pointlessly kick other projects when they are down.
I didn't have a single foe here until I made some blunt comments about Wayland a couple of years ago - so no - another incredibly obvious lie. Why are you lying like this? Also what's with the multiple sock-puppet accounts shit?
It doesn't work that way.
You are either jumping at shadows or projecting your own behaviour onto others if you've been running through accounts.
I've only had one other account here which was under the name "Mandelbrute" and I have not used it since I lost the login details for it sometime around 2000.