Are the rumours that blk-665 is a child molester also true? I mean, if you stupidly let your real adress be connected with the alias and someone were to say that bl-665 watches kiddy porn when he's not high on cannabis making threats about the president involving nuclear anthrax fertilizer bombs, it could be bad, right?
Simply because you aren't doing anything questionable doesn't mean that someone else couldn't easily make it seem like you did, and since it seems to be fashionable to play a psychopath online nowadays, I'd be extremely wary of letting my real identity and my online identites connect in any way.
Universities need to start hiring teachers based on their teaching abilities, a good teacher isn't always the best in their field and someone who is the best in their field isn't always the best teacher, especially since most of the time they don't even get to teach the class they have a passion for.
A university is a research institution. It's also a teaching institution. Separate the teachers and researchers and what you have is no university anymore, but two institutions working in the same space, at which point they could as well be entirely separated.
Besides, you can't keep on relying on teachers forever. As you near the end of the schooling pipe, you are more or less at the same or higher level of education on any non-teaching-related subject as any professional teacher could possibly be, so you'll have to start finding information and teaching it to yourself by yourself. And people who are the top of their field are about as good sources of that information, even if they are not good teachers.
University education isn't about teaching, it's about giving the opportunity to learn, because that's all that's possible at that level, and focusing on good researchers rather than good teachers best faciliates that.
- Why would an impartial observer care one jot about that?
An impartial observer does not care by definition, thus your question is a red herring.
- For someone who did think it was an undesirable state of affairs, what can be done about it?
Put up protective tariffs and make it difficult to send money from the country, but easy for people to move in. You know, what we had in the past when everything went well and the opposite that we have now, when everything is going straight to Hell.
If you forbid US companies from outsourcing abroad -- they simply take their entire operation abroad, and cease to be US companies.
Good riddance. If they aren't doing anything for us, why would we want them around? Away with them, so new companies can rise in their stead to actually benefit us.
If you enforce protectionist import/export restrictions -- other countries respond in kind.
Good. With any luck, it kills off the multinationals, thus restoring economic power to where it belongs: in the hands of national governments and through them Us the People.
It's about time we grew a spine and fought back against these rich assholes who would have the whole of humanity compete on who can grovel best before them.
Just want to reinforce this. Im one of those religious nutcases GP is referring to, and since both my experience and my faith tell me that people are basically not to be trusted, a party that thinks regulation and big government are bad was kind of the natural place to situate myself.
So, you think people are not to be trusted, then go on and trust them to behave themselves without regulation? You want a small government, one that is quite unable to restrict the power of local gang leaders, businessmen, and assorted scum, despite not having any illusions about these people not bouncing on the opportunity to abuse their power?
I'm sorry, but that doesn't really make sense.
But when Democrats at their core believe in strong central government, its not really hard to understand why anyone who thinks that "people are generally bad" is going to shy away from the party.
Actually, it is. If people are generally bad, then you need a strong government to restrict their evil - an iron-fisted Leviathan keeping the little demons in check. In such a world, a weak government is a recipe for disaster.
PayPal founder Peter Thiel has put $1.25 million toward building floating, autonomous countries at sea, devoted to the implementation of libertarian policies.
There are two kinds of libertarians: idiots who actually think that removing government regulation would result in liberty rather than feudalism, and cynical assholes who take advantage of them. Based on PayPals reputation, which category do you think a PayPal founder most likely belongs to?
The headline is deliberately written to make it seem like a Great Firewall of Argentina just went up or something, which is what I was saying...
Yes, the Great Firewall of Argentina did just go up. That's what censoring means.
Still, who cares? All countries will censor the Internet, for all countries have their own lies to defend; and their citizens will get around that censorship and access whatever content they desire. And in the end, the content actually accessed by said citizens will be mostly circuses. Thus a country that censors the Internet is simply hastening its own downfall.
You can mount a partition as a folder in a NTFS partition (like it is on Linux).
How?
When you install Windows you can specify that the user profiles be somewhere else other than "C:\Documents and Settings"
No you can't, or at least my install process didn't give that option.
You can move the Documents and Settings folder after installation, but it's difficult.
How?
You can move the profile of a single user to another folder/drive
How?
On a single user systems (and a lot of PCs now are single user) there is no need to do any of that - just save the files to another drive.
Indeed you can. And I have. But it would be so much more convenient to simply tell Windows to use the other drive (actually the second virtual drive in a RAID10 pack) as "extra space" for the main drive.
Does Windows support other hard drives with GPT under normal BIOS?
Yes.
If so, then I do not see the problem. I would not need a 3TB drive as a system drive, I'd use a smaller one, either a fast HDD or a SSD.
It wouldn't be a problem if Windows didn't still use drive letters as the basis of its filesystem organization. However, it does, and so relocating the user folder to a larger drive is pretty much impossible.
Profit, but for whom? Not for China. Inflation is good if you are a debtor, but very bad if you are a creditor. And the longer it takes the debtor to pay the worse it gets.
There is no way in Hell the United States will ever pay its debts; it couldn't do it even if it was managed competently, rather than by a bunch of seniles with delusions of grandeur and no interest to do anything except send money to their home states, common good be damned. China knows this too. So why lend to the United States?
To put it bluntly, China wants to rule the world, and are smart enough to go about it without needless bloodshed. US hegemony is over, but they're still a major player which has only very recently lost its way; by lending to US, China not only prevents the chaos that usually results the collapse of an empire, and might gain a powerful ally, should they manage to turn US back towards favoring industry over unproductive financial sector. The money lent is lost, of course, but it's a good investment nonetheless.
The main threat in this picture is the somewhat lacking respect for human or worker rights in China; then again, the US hasn't given a crap about either in its foreign policy. So, it could go either way, as far as whether this change of rulers will benefit the world is concerned.
I still do not get why current BIOSes cannot be made compatible with larger drives.
They are, unless they try to do "clever" things (Intel fakeRAID, I'm looking at you). However, Windows (surprise!) doesn't support booting from GPT under normal BIOS.
Isn't it nice to know that, even in the year 2011, Microsoft is still working hard to hold back progress?
100 hours of entertainment at $60 seems like a deal to me compared to say 2 hours for $10 at the movies.
It's not 100 hours of entertainment, it's 2 hours of entertainment repeated for 50 times. And that's being generous; most games have perhaps 10 minutes of content, then it's just repeating the same thing over and over again.
_You_ can't, just as you can't be 100% sure that the electoral commitee/agency isn't counting paper ballots with rigged software or downright lying. You have to trust _someone_ ultimately or you wouldn't vote at all.
Well, no. It's pretty trivial to design a paper ballot system so that it's both fast to count and easy to monitor.
Open the voting place to public. Bring in the ballot box, open it, show that there's nothing inside, and seal it. Commence the voting. After voting ends, count the votes right there, in the voting place, in full view of everyone who wishes to watch - and, since this is the New Tens, also videotape it and upload the tape as well as the numbers. Next, tell the numbers to the regional center, which adds all the subtotals to get its own, again in full view of everyone and with the numbers uploaded on the Internet. Continue with as many layers of the hierarchy as needed, and you should get the final results overnight, and there is no part of this process which couldn't be watched over by anyone who wants.
Contrast this with computers, where it's just plain impossible to know what they're doing unless you already trust them, there are numerous examples of bugs going unnoticed in security-critical code for years, and actual real-life voting machines making complete mockery of security. Not to mention there's a huge incentive to hack them.
Which is probably at least one of the goals of this system. It's just the latest front in the ongoing war to illegitimaze the government, so the corporations and the rich get completely free reign without any of that "for the people" sosialistic crap.
Private contractors cannot afford the screw ups. Oh I am sure they will screw up but when your trying to make a buck in a high risk area you do your damned best to eliminate all those risks, especially ones that will end your business like losing a life.
By the time business ends, the manager who made the decisions leading to it has already cashed in his bonuses for his part in cutting costs and moved somewhere else. Similarly, the shareholders who rewarded him have cashed in on the temporary stock prize boost. And the employees, knowing fully well that they have no job security whatsoever, don't sweat it either, since they know that they'll have to find another job every couple years anyway.
I've raised the issue in Republican political discussion forums thinking that maybe somebody might get a clue that Republican congressmen are two faced on this particular issue. Such discussion threads usually go like a lead balloon and die a premature death as nobody responds or even sees a problem... or worse yet defends Republican congressmen for their actions to support a central design bureau with a command economy structure because it benefits their own districts.
Questioning Republican policies on Republican forums is like questioning the existence of God on Rapture Ready forums.
Why this obsession with high frequency trading among nerds? It's no different from any other industrial equipment.
"Microsecond trading" is basically a hidden tax imposed on trades. It has nothing to do with industry, for it produces nothing; it's simply a bunch of parasites sapping other people's money by forcing themselves as middlemen into every trade made. It is one of the many symptoms of increasing corruption in our economic system, and resisting it is one of the ways we can resist such corruption.
TL;DR: Parasites should be vilified and dislodged, especially when the victim is already weak, and microsecond traders are parasites and nothing else.
It is refreshing to see some people on Slashdot suggest that science just fills gaps with unsubstantiated assumptions sometimes instead of just complaining about organized religion doing that, as if it's exclusive.
I was wondering when this would come up. Time to get some popcorn and watch the fireworks!
Why should you be proven wrong, when you're entirely right? This is "news for nerds", after all. Nerds are all about tinkering with things, Apple is all about locking everything down. Apple is the antithesis of open source, and thus the natural enemy of nerds everywhere.
Yes and like Netherlands, Oregon drivers should be incentivized for smoking weed. Because weed makes you stay off the highway, and in your apartment listening to Steely Dan albums where your carbon footprint is low.
Actually, that's a great idea, and one that we need to seriously investigate for the future. It's what all these energy conservation programs come down to: encourage lack of action, because any action takes energy. Energy conservation = passivity.
I posted in another story about virtual worlds being used for this purpose, but weed would also work great.
they worked long before facebook boy was ever born (let alone since he came up with a great new way to waste time and resources)
Is Facebook actually wasting resources? It seems to me that it - and all the other virtual worlds on the Internet - are actually saving quite a bit of resources, since the people engaged in them thus has less time to, say, go to a joyride.
Cynical but true: living a virtual life instead of a real one is better for the world. A Matrix-like future where people are physically passive most of the time and instead live online is one possible way of solving the energy crisis. And it doesn't seem to require any draconian measures to get people hooked into virtual worlds, as opposed to almost every other solution that gets thrown around.
Of course our physical bodies themselves would need to be modified to better handle those long periods of passivity, so that muscles and other tissues don't athropy.
The entire point of protesting is to get up in the way of regular people and make them notice.
Every time a protest gets in my way, I ask myself: how much harm am I willing to suffer just to harm the cause of these people for revenge?
Getting into people's way is stupid; it just makes into your enemies. That might work for neo-Nazis and other groups built around persecution complexes; but if you have a legitimate cause, the last thing you want is for people to associate it with public disorder.
If you have such a poor understanding of human nature that you can't understand that making people dependent makes them weak, well, there isn't much hope for you recognizing truth when you see, or hear, it..
It is right-wing politics that make people dependent, by making them so poor they have to take whatever abuse their corporate masters unleash least they die of hunger. A welfare state guarantees survival even to the poor, and in more advanced forms allows them to advance their position in life by providing things like free education, thus making them free. And most people are poor.
You libertarians agree with Nietzsche when he said "The misery of men living a life of toil has to be increased to make the production of the world of art possible for a small number of Olympian men." Only you don't have the guts to come right out and say it, or perhaps even admit it to yourself, so you hide behind lofty ideals like "liberty" (by which you mean "free-for-all", also known as "the law of the jungle") and obfuscate the issue by talking about "rights", which are carefully crafted so that they protect the haves and condemn the have-nots. Some of you are vultures who prey on the weak and dying, and the rest are idiots who dream of being vultures yet are just another meal in the making. And you condemn socialism because it helps people back to their feet and denies you a meal.
How many more financial crises do we have to go through before you little libertarian parasites are dislodged from our collective jugular? Already we are almost dry. I wonder if this makes the likes of Raegan and Rand real-life vampires, seeing how they are still bleeding us from the grave...
I think they do understand it, it's just that the summary has, as is routine on Slashdot, taken the worst possible misinterpretation of what was said.
With all the tree-strike laws on books nowadays, and more and more countries implementing their own Great Firewalls, and judges passing a sentence of "do not use the Internet" whenever they feel like it, I think that such paranoia is both understandable and appropriate.
It doesn't sound like they're looking at making much of a stretch from where we are now - where, police can arrest someone, release them on bail, and ban them from using a computer as part of their bail conditions. Realistically, knowing politicians, it'll just be something as impotent as introducing ASBOs that ban computer usage for a fixed period or something silly like that.
Silly? Banning someone from using a computer nowadays isolates them from both knowledge and communications, and in fact disqualifies them from most jobs. It's a monstrous punishment that is passed whenever the judge happens to feel like it.
Banning someone from computers nowadays is not unlike forcing them to wear a blindfold, earplugs, ball gag and handcuffs would had been in the old days.
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Are the rumours that blk-665 is a child molester also true? I mean, if you stupidly let your real adress be connected with the alias and someone were to say that bl-665 watches kiddy porn when he's not high on cannabis making threats about the president involving nuclear anthrax fertilizer bombs, it could be bad, right?
Simply because you aren't doing anything questionable doesn't mean that someone else couldn't easily make it seem like you did, and since it seems to be fashionable to play a psychopath online nowadays, I'd be extremely wary of letting my real identity and my online identites connect in any way.
A university is a research institution. It's also a teaching institution. Separate the teachers and researchers and what you have is no university anymore, but two institutions working in the same space, at which point they could as well be entirely separated.
Besides, you can't keep on relying on teachers forever. As you near the end of the schooling pipe, you are more or less at the same or higher level of education on any non-teaching-related subject as any professional teacher could possibly be, so you'll have to start finding information and teaching it to yourself by yourself. And people who are the top of their field are about as good sources of that information, even if they are not good teachers.
University education isn't about teaching, it's about giving the opportunity to learn, because that's all that's possible at that level, and focusing on good researchers rather than good teachers best faciliates that.
An impartial observer does not care by definition, thus your question is a red herring.
Put up protective tariffs and make it difficult to send money from the country, but easy for people to move in. You know, what we had in the past when everything went well and the opposite that we have now, when everything is going straight to Hell.
Good riddance. If they aren't doing anything for us, why would we want them around? Away with them, so new companies can rise in their stead to actually benefit us.
Good. With any luck, it kills off the multinationals, thus restoring economic power to where it belongs: in the hands of national governments and through them Us the People.
It's about time we grew a spine and fought back against these rich assholes who would have the whole of humanity compete on who can grovel best before them.
So, you think people are not to be trusted, then go on and trust them to behave themselves without regulation? You want a small government, one that is quite unable to restrict the power of local gang leaders, businessmen, and assorted scum, despite not having any illusions about these people not bouncing on the opportunity to abuse their power?
I'm sorry, but that doesn't really make sense.
Actually, it is. If people are generally bad, then you need a strong government to restrict their evil - an iron-fisted Leviathan keeping the little demons in check. In such a world, a weak government is a recipe for disaster.
There are two kinds of libertarians: idiots who actually think that removing government regulation would result in liberty rather than feudalism, and cynical assholes who take advantage of them. Based on PayPals reputation, which category do you think a PayPal founder most likely belongs to?
Yes, the Great Firewall of Argentina did just go up. That's what censoring means.
Still, who cares? All countries will censor the Internet, for all countries have their own lies to defend; and their citizens will get around that censorship and access whatever content they desire. And in the end, the content actually accessed by said citizens will be mostly circuses. Thus a country that censors the Internet is simply hastening its own downfall.
How?
No you can't, or at least my install process didn't give that option.
How?
How?
Indeed you can. And I have. But it would be so much more convenient to simply tell Windows to use the other drive (actually the second virtual drive in a RAID10 pack) as "extra space" for the main drive.
Yes.
It wouldn't be a problem if Windows didn't still use drive letters as the basis of its filesystem organization. However, it does, and so relocating the user folder to a larger drive is pretty much impossible.
There is no way in Hell the United States will ever pay its debts; it couldn't do it even if it was managed competently, rather than by a bunch of seniles with delusions of grandeur and no interest to do anything except send money to their home states, common good be damned. China knows this too. So why lend to the United States?
To put it bluntly, China wants to rule the world, and are smart enough to go about it without needless bloodshed. US hegemony is over, but they're still a major player which has only very recently lost its way; by lending to US, China not only prevents the chaos that usually results the collapse of an empire, and might gain a powerful ally, should they manage to turn US back towards favoring industry over unproductive financial sector. The money lent is lost, of course, but it's a good investment nonetheless.
The main threat in this picture is the somewhat lacking respect for human or worker rights in China; then again, the US hasn't given a crap about either in its foreign policy. So, it could go either way, as far as whether this change of rulers will benefit the world is concerned.
They are, unless they try to do "clever" things (Intel fakeRAID, I'm looking at you). However, Windows (surprise!) doesn't support booting from GPT under normal BIOS.
Isn't it nice to know that, even in the year 2011, Microsoft is still working hard to hold back progress?
It's not 100 hours of entertainment, it's 2 hours of entertainment repeated for 50 times. And that's being generous; most games have perhaps 10 minutes of content, then it's just repeating the same thing over and over again.
Well, no. It's pretty trivial to design a paper ballot system so that it's both fast to count and easy to monitor.
Open the voting place to public. Bring in the ballot box, open it, show that there's nothing inside, and seal it. Commence the voting. After voting ends, count the votes right there, in the voting place, in full view of everyone who wishes to watch - and, since this is the New Tens, also videotape it and upload the tape as well as the numbers. Next, tell the numbers to the regional center, which adds all the subtotals to get its own, again in full view of everyone and with the numbers uploaded on the Internet. Continue with as many layers of the hierarchy as needed, and you should get the final results overnight, and there is no part of this process which couldn't be watched over by anyone who wants.
Contrast this with computers, where it's just plain impossible to know what they're doing unless you already trust them, there are numerous examples of bugs going unnoticed in security-critical code for years, and actual real-life voting machines making complete mockery of security. Not to mention there's a huge incentive to hack them.
Which is probably at least one of the goals of this system. It's just the latest front in the ongoing war to illegitimaze the government, so the corporations and the rich get completely free reign without any of that "for the people" sosialistic crap.
By the time business ends, the manager who made the decisions leading to it has already cashed in his bonuses for his part in cutting costs and moved somewhere else. Similarly, the shareholders who rewarded him have cashed in on the temporary stock prize boost. And the employees, knowing fully well that they have no job security whatsoever, don't sweat it either, since they know that they'll have to find another job every couple years anyway.
Questioning Republican policies on Republican forums is like questioning the existence of God on Rapture Ready forums.
"Microsecond trading" is basically a hidden tax imposed on trades. It has nothing to do with industry, for it produces nothing; it's simply a bunch of parasites sapping other people's money by forcing themselves as middlemen into every trade made. It is one of the many symptoms of increasing corruption in our economic system, and resisting it is one of the ways we can resist such corruption.
TL;DR: Parasites should be vilified and dislodged, especially when the victim is already weak, and microsecond traders are parasites and nothing else.
What, you've not heard of microsecond trading before?
You didn't actually think that stock exchange was somehow different from a rigged casino, right?
I was wondering when this would come up. Time to get some popcorn and watch the fireworks!
Why should you be proven wrong, when you're entirely right? This is "news for nerds", after all. Nerds are all about tinkering with things, Apple is all about locking everything down. Apple is the antithesis of open source, and thus the natural enemy of nerds everywhere.
Actually, that's a great idea, and one that we need to seriously investigate for the future. It's what all these energy conservation programs come down to: encourage lack of action, because any action takes energy. Energy conservation = passivity.
I posted in another story about virtual worlds being used for this purpose, but weed would also work great.
We aren't building a society, we are letting it rot away, so the grinning skull under the pretty face is starting to become visible.
Is Facebook actually wasting resources? It seems to me that it - and all the other virtual worlds on the Internet - are actually saving quite a bit of resources, since the people engaged in them thus has less time to, say, go to a joyride.
Cynical but true: living a virtual life instead of a real one is better for the world. A Matrix-like future where people are physically passive most of the time and instead live online is one possible way of solving the energy crisis. And it doesn't seem to require any draconian measures to get people hooked into virtual worlds, as opposed to almost every other solution that gets thrown around.
Of course our physical bodies themselves would need to be modified to better handle those long periods of passivity, so that muscles and other tissues don't athropy.
Every time a protest gets in my way, I ask myself: how much harm am I willing to suffer just to harm the cause of these people for revenge?
Getting into people's way is stupid; it just makes into your enemies. That might work for neo-Nazis and other groups built around persecution complexes; but if you have a legitimate cause, the last thing you want is for people to associate it with public disorder.
It is right-wing politics that make people dependent, by making them so poor they have to take whatever abuse their corporate masters unleash least they die of hunger. A welfare state guarantees survival even to the poor, and in more advanced forms allows them to advance their position in life by providing things like free education, thus making them free. And most people are poor.
You libertarians agree with Nietzsche when he said "The misery of men living a life of toil has to be increased to make the production of the world of art possible for a small number of Olympian men." Only you don't have the guts to come right out and say it, or perhaps even admit it to yourself, so you hide behind lofty ideals like "liberty" (by which you mean "free-for-all", also known as "the law of the jungle") and obfuscate the issue by talking about "rights", which are carefully crafted so that they protect the haves and condemn the have-nots. Some of you are vultures who prey on the weak and dying, and the rest are idiots who dream of being vultures yet are just another meal in the making. And you condemn socialism because it helps people back to their feet and denies you a meal.
How many more financial crises do we have to go through before you little libertarian parasites are dislodged from our collective jugular? Already we are almost dry. I wonder if this makes the likes of Raegan and Rand real-life vampires, seeing how they are still bleeding us from the grave...
With all the tree-strike laws on books nowadays, and more and more countries implementing their own Great Firewalls, and judges passing a sentence of "do not use the Internet" whenever they feel like it, I think that such paranoia is both understandable and appropriate.
Silly? Banning someone from using a computer nowadays isolates them from both knowledge and communications, and in fact disqualifies them from most jobs. It's a monstrous punishment that is passed whenever the judge happens to feel like it.
Banning someone from computers nowadays is not unlike forcing them to wear a blindfold, earplugs, ball gag and handcuffs would had been in the old days.