Patriot act I and II that allows them to act hidden from its' citizens.
For a short period of time only, not indefinitely.
Runs a prison for "enemy combatants" (not civilians, but not military either) that has been accused by just about every neutral observer of being a gulag.
Uh huh... yeah, show me these neutral observers. Amnesty International? Democrats R Us? People related to former inmates? There are no neutral observers on this planet.
Invaded a country on made-up false pretenses.
Finding out something was false doesn't equal making it up.
Allows a traitor to stay in the white house.
Ha ok now we're on to the absurd. I don't really have a problem with Clinton, but I bet you weren't saying anything about this traitor when he was in office, were you? You know, the guy that went to Canada to avoid serving in the military?
I think you'll also find that censorship occurs in all countries, and that much of it is ludicrous. (Look at the list of books banned in various parts of the US - "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"???)
Do you really fail to see the difference in a school or city banning a book, and a state or federal government banning a book.
How many books has the federal government of the US banned?
Zero.
Americans, especially, are bad about seeing the defects in others and ignoring their own.
"Especially"? No, not especially. Everyone on earth, in general, is bad about seeing their own defects. Or did you think that Bible quote you mentioned was aimed at Americans? No, not "especially."
Are they also sluts? Since as you point out, the ratios are a bit uhhh lopsided...
Based solely on my limited knowledge of Bukkake, I will say, Yes. Yes, they are sluts. Praise be to the Otaku Bukkake and long-live the geek ghettos of Tokyo.
I have to admit that I would probably use this quite a bit to check my email and play on the web on flights.
This feature would allow me to fly more often.
Being on call 24/7 for work requires me to be able to fix issues on our servers via remote desktop over our VPN. This means if I will be out of contact for more than an hour, or am planning to go some place where it would take me more than an hour to get to an internet connection, it is basically frowned upon.
However, I'll miss the fact that there was a space where I couldn't do those things. There's so much pressure on people to be available all the time, that it was nice to have forced downtime.
I'm sure these people will still come up with an excuse not to be reachable. "Sorry, my WIFI card/battery/laptop died. Sorry, they said their WIFI router wasn't working on the flight. Sorry, I forgot and packed my wallet in my suitcase, and couldn't purchase WIFI time. etc...
Cell phone usage I would object to, unless they limited it to a secluded "room" on the flight where people could go to talk on their cell phones. Or perhaps a "cell phone section" of the airplane which you would pay more to fly in, and which could be separated from the other rows by a heavy curtain to block out the sound.
Then again, it wouldn't affect me too much as I can always plug my headset in and tune those folks out.
there'd already be a union for people in the game industry, and this sort of problem would have already been resolved.
As long as you care to ignore the other problems the union would cause.
Right now programmers and artists are being exploited in industry.
Boohoo. I picture a sign with a starving programmer on it, "Can you spare 10 cents a day to adopt this hungry game developer?"
They are working severe overtime without compensation.
Quit and get a new job.
Any copyright on created art or code is transfered without any particular compensation, for use of the company in perpetuity.
This goes for almost every job out there, computer related or not. They are called "works for hire."
People are literally being worked sick, and most receive a relative pittance in return, when compared with the profits of publishers.
Find a better employer. Working for someone doesn't give you the right to dictate how you are paid. You do that before you start, when you are hammering out your contract or rules for employment. If you don't like that the publishers make way more than you, quit your job and start publishing.
What is the shame in forming a union?
Because it means you've given up on the American way, the capitalist way, and are instead resigned to being dragged along with the lowest common denominator.
The current situation will remain until there is a force present to reverse it. And that force isn't about to come from the Tooth Fairy.
Here's another way: everyone that's pissed off, quit working for your scummy video game employer, and find a different job. You'll notice one of two things: (a) Most of the videogame developers don't hate it as much as you imply, and nothing changes, or (b) Many do quit and the publishers are forced to change their ways.
No unions required. Unions are what unskilled laborers use to legally enforce a mob mentality. It drags the highest workers down tot he lowest levels, because it takes away any incentive to do better than just enough. You may notice this is similar to socialism, where there is no incentive to produce more or work harder.
So if you want this kind of landscape in the software world, by all means, form a union. I won't join it, though, I've got too much common sense and pride.
"Only gay people use macs," or "Macs are gay" are statements playing off an assumption that gay people are somehow less than you, and thus only fit to use the 'inferior' macs.
Ummm, no. I see things all the time that I associate with gay men. Like VW Jettas, little dogs, and the Bravo channel. This doesn't mean I think those things are inferior... just gay.
In order to have a game which contains good sex, you need to have an audience who knows what good sex is.
Ummm, I gather from this article that "good sex" being referenced here is more about good video game porn and not, as you are leaning towards, "good sex." Honestly, do we have to explain that real good sex will have to take place among actual humans? The question is, why aren't there really good hardcore porn video games?
fake orgasms-- all ending with a goddamn cumshot
Somehow I think those are probably REAL orgasms.
Why the hell would you pull out of a great orgasm to cum on the girls face??? BOOOOOORRRRRING!
Have you ever cummed on a girl's face? I have. I don't do it often, and I don't do it without permission, but it is exciting. If you've ever cummed on a girl's face, I really doubt you'd find it BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRING!
Oh wait, you meant watching them cum on their faces is boring. Well, you sir need to steer clear of the traditional porn and head for the creampie!
Well, that's what I hear anyway.
As an aside, have you ever read a slashdot post you're about to make and think, "I sure as hell hope no one I know ever figures out this is my account!"
I am not homophobic, and I see the humor in the joke you are replying to. It's called absurd humor... half the joke is in the stereotyping. Macs are stereotypically the favorite computer of gays, and Linux geeks have a strong correlation with the "dirty hippie" and "pinko commie" crowd.
So don't get your panties all in a bunch.
(I'm assuming you're either a P.C. blowhard, or a homo. See, wasn't that funny?)
And the next thing you know will be Google launching specs on web design and then content. Who will comply? well.. anybody who wishes to be indexed by Google. That is 100% of the website owners. And thus Google will control the design, content and other things... HELP... they are taking over the internet
This might be marked as troll... but think about it. Isnt it possible?
No. Because Google needs our pages indexed by its robots more than we need Google to index us.
Sonny, let me tell you 'bout a time before Google. There was Yahoo! and AltaVista and tons of others.
Oh wait, that time is now. Just because Google is the top dog right now doesn't mean they can stop competing and start dictating terms of our surrender. Imagine Google rolls out these "requirements," and 20% of the sites currently indexed comply. Now Google has a fifth of their previously indexed pages, and instantly their search engine becomes useless to most people.
Or more accurately, creating an interface for a computer that can read your brainwaves so you can just think about what you want it to do. Probably 50-100 years off at least, but there are basics being done now (moving a cursor around a screen, etc).
I think speech recognition will be used much more once we start getting more travel-friendly displays (e.g. beaming a display into your eyes from a pair of glasses or nearby low-powered laser). How often have I been driving and thought, "If only I could say 'Google, show me 123 Main Street, Los Angeles, California' and have it pull up some information." Or, "Google, what is 60 mph in kph?" The guys on Star Trek often began sentences with "Computer...", but I think its more likely our first computer interactions that are useful are going to be with utterances of "Search engine..." Arthur C. Clarke wrote about this in a recent book, if I recall.
Also, the places where regular speech recognition would be useful exist now, such as dictating a letter. People dictate letters already.
People talk on phones all the time, why not talk to your computer as well? You can often talk faster than you can type. If recognition catches up, it will be viable.
Some things still will never lend themselves to speech recognition, such as most programming.
The arrogance it takes for an industry to come up with this phrase is just amazing.
I hate to break this to you, but every "industry" comes up with these types of phrases. Ever dealt with a "luser" while doing tech support?
Just because there is a term out there used within the industry doesn't mean amazon.com employees stand around and refer to the "bottom feeders" on the site that day.
But so what if they do? As long as they treat me well and provide the products or services I want, I couldn't care less how they refer to my segment of the population behind closed doors.
Perhaps what's really annoying me is that companies don't want to compete and so are doing everything they can to attract their "ideal" customer while saying "screw you" to the other guys.
Companies do want to compete. Different companies seek out different sweet spots. Some companies will try to sell to everyone, and everyone pays a slightly higher price. Some companies will do what is described in this article, and give benefits to their repeat customers to make them loyal.
I find the practice of turning customers away arrogant and annoying
Then when you find out what stores do it, don't shop there. If enough people look at it that way, they'll change their practices. But be prepared to pay more for products and services if you don't want to deal with certain companies.
1. How will the phone know when you want to dial versus when you want to change the channel. Surely without it knowing this, or you having to flip a switch, you will be annoyed one way or the other. (Changing the channel when you want to dial, and vice versa.)
2. Cell phone keypads are designed to call people (and type messages, sometimes), and remotes are designed to control electronic devices. Other than the 10 digits, I don't see any correlation between the two devices. Why can't your landline phone change the channel? It also has 10 digits. Why can't I pick up the phone, dial #88 (that's "#TV") and just tell my TV what to do?
Just because two things share some things doesn't mean they'd be improved by combining them.
What we'd love to do is drop a fully functional program on the unsuspecting public like a bomb... but that would mean secrecy is needed until it actually works (or if we're accepted as a stipend, until we're done working in the time period).
Would that even be possible? Not talking about taking it under something other than likely LGPL (makes the most sense for us), just a "hush hush" approach rather than bragging left and right about this great cool project, then having it fizzle.
This is absolutely possible. I recommend hyping it up in slashdot comments. Those fucks at Google didn't give dibona an email account (something about not having any gmail accounts left over), so he has to collect all correspondence on slashdot google posts.
Although I have no doubt that the current human-caused warming trends will greatly effect the biodiversty of this planet, I'm not worried about the long term survival of the earth.
Duh. When people say "Save the Planet!" what they really mean is "Save our asses!" As George Carlin once said,
As long as this is limited to the city level, that is fine. Because that means as soon as the government in my city starts taking over where private companies can run things more efficiently, well, that's when I move to a different city.
Have you seen a government organization ever run anything efficiently?
Slashdot Mirror
They would care a lot more if Mac had more than a tiny fraction of the OS market.
And what if I type my email without thinking? You know, like I do for slashdot my comments.
I was correcting your grammar in my head, but then I thought, you know, that's just beautiful.
Don't sweat it EnronHalliburton2004.
I don't consider anyone a geek until they bite the head off a chicken!
Patriot act I and II that allows them to act hidden from its' citizens.
For a short period of time only, not indefinitely.
Runs a prison for "enemy combatants" (not civilians, but not military either) that has been accused by just about every neutral observer of being a gulag.
Uh huh... yeah, show me these neutral observers. Amnesty International? Democrats R Us? People related to former inmates? There are no neutral observers on this planet.
Invaded a country on made-up false pretenses.
Finding out something was false doesn't equal making it up.
Allows a traitor to stay in the white house.
Ha ok now we're on to the absurd. I don't really have a problem with Clinton, but I bet you weren't saying anything about this traitor when he was in office, were you? You know, the guy that went to Canada to avoid serving in the military?
I think you'll also find that censorship occurs in all countries, and that much of it is ludicrous. (Look at the list of books banned in various parts of the US - "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"???)
Do you really fail to see the difference in a school or city banning a book, and a state or federal government banning a book.
How many books has the federal government of the US banned?
Zero.
Americans, especially, are bad about seeing the defects in others and ignoring their own.
"Especially"? No, not especially. Everyone on earth, in general, is bad about seeing their own defects. Or did you think that Bible quote you mentioned was aimed at Americans? No, not "especially."
Are they also sluts? Since as you point out, the ratios are a bit uhhh lopsided...
Based solely on my limited knowledge of Bukkake, I will say, Yes. Yes, they are sluts. Praise be to the Otaku Bukkake and long-live the geek ghettos of Tokyo.
I have to admit that I would probably use this quite a bit to check my email and play on the web on flights.
This feature would allow me to fly more often.
Being on call 24/7 for work requires me to be able to fix issues on our servers via remote desktop over our VPN. This means if I will be out of contact for more than an hour, or am planning to go some place where it would take me more than an hour to get to an internet connection, it is basically frowned upon.
However, I'll miss the fact that there was a space where I couldn't do those things. There's so much pressure on people to be available all the time, that it was nice to have forced downtime.
I'm sure these people will still come up with an excuse not to be reachable. "Sorry, my WIFI card/battery/laptop died. Sorry, they said their WIFI router wasn't working on the flight. Sorry, I forgot and packed my wallet in my suitcase, and couldn't purchase WIFI time. etc...
Cell phone usage I would object to, unless they limited it to a secluded "room" on the flight where people could go to talk on their cell phones. Or perhaps a "cell phone section" of the airplane which you would pay more to fly in, and which could be separated from the other rows by a heavy curtain to block out the sound.
Then again, it wouldn't affect me too much as I can always plug my headset in and tune those folks out.
Most of us are using Linux on x86, and we couldn't care less.
This is a fallacy. Last I read, the majority of Slashdot visitors are coming from Windows machines. I know I use Windows XP most of the time.
there'd already be a union for people in the game industry, and this sort of problem would have already been resolved.
As long as you care to ignore the other problems the union would cause.
Right now programmers and artists are being exploited in industry.
Boohoo. I picture a sign with a starving programmer on it, "Can you spare 10 cents a day to adopt this hungry game developer?"
They are working severe overtime without compensation.
Quit and get a new job.
Any copyright on created art or code is transfered without any particular compensation, for use of the company in perpetuity.
This goes for almost every job out there, computer related or not. They are called "works for hire."
People are literally being worked sick, and most receive a relative pittance in return, when compared with the profits of publishers.
Find a better employer. Working for someone doesn't give you the right to dictate how you are paid. You do that before you start, when you are hammering out your contract or rules for employment. If you don't like that the publishers make way more than you, quit your job and start publishing.
What is the shame in forming a union?
Because it means you've given up on the American way, the capitalist way, and are instead resigned to being dragged along with the lowest common denominator.
The current situation will remain until there is a force present to reverse it. And that force isn't about to come from the Tooth Fairy.
Here's another way: everyone that's pissed off, quit working for your scummy video game employer, and find a different job. You'll notice one of two things: (a) Most of the videogame developers don't hate it as much as you imply, and nothing changes, or (b) Many do quit and the publishers are forced to change their ways.
No unions required. Unions are what unskilled laborers use to legally enforce a mob mentality. It drags the highest workers down tot he lowest levels, because it takes away any incentive to do better than just enough. You may notice this is similar to socialism, where there is no incentive to produce more or work harder.
So if you want this kind of landscape in the software world, by all means, form a union. I won't join it, though, I've got too much common sense and pride.
There's a fine line between "being whipped" and "getting laid more often."
A fine line.
"Only gay people use macs," or "Macs are gay" are statements playing off an assumption that gay people are somehow less than you, and thus only fit to use the 'inferior' macs.
Ummm, no. I see things all the time that I associate with gay men. Like VW Jettas, little dogs, and the Bravo channel. This doesn't mean I think those things are inferior... just gay.
In order to have a game which contains good sex, you need to have an audience who knows what good sex is.
Ummm, I gather from this article that "good sex" being referenced here is more about good video game porn and not, as you are leaning towards, "good sex." Honestly, do we have to explain that real good sex will have to take place among actual humans? The question is, why aren't there really good hardcore porn video games?
fake orgasms-- all ending with a goddamn cumshot
Somehow I think those are probably REAL orgasms.
Why the hell would you pull out of a great orgasm to cum on the girls face??? BOOOOOORRRRRING!
Have you ever cummed on a girl's face? I have. I don't do it often, and I don't do it without permission, but it is exciting. If you've ever cummed on a girl's face, I really doubt you'd find it BOOOOOOOOORRRRRRING!
Oh wait, you meant watching them cum on their faces is boring. Well, you sir need to steer clear of the traditional porn and head for the creampie!
Well, that's what I hear anyway.
As an aside, have you ever read a slashdot post you're about to make and think, "I sure as hell hope no one I know ever figures out this is my account!"
A comment can't be homophobic, only a person can.
I am not homophobic, and I see the humor in the joke you are replying to. It's called absurd humor... half the joke is in the stereotyping. Macs are stereotypically the favorite computer of gays, and Linux geeks have a strong correlation with the "dirty hippie" and "pinko commie" crowd.
So don't get your panties all in a bunch.
(I'm assuming you're either a P.C. blowhard, or a homo. See, wasn't that funny?)
And the next thing you know will be Google launching specs on web design and then content. Who will comply? well.. anybody who wishes to be indexed by Google. That is 100% of the website owners. And thus Google will control the design, content and other things... HELP... they are taking over the internet
This might be marked as troll... but think about it. Isnt it possible?
No. Because Google needs our pages indexed by its robots more than we need Google to index us.
Sonny, let me tell you 'bout a time before Google. There was Yahoo! and AltaVista and tons of others.
Oh wait, that time is now. Just because Google is the top dog right now doesn't mean they can stop competing and start dictating terms of our surrender. Imagine Google rolls out these "requirements," and 20% of the sites currently indexed comply. Now Google has a fifth of their previously indexed pages, and instantly their search engine becomes useless to most people.
Telepathy.
Or more accurately, creating an interface for a computer that can read your brainwaves so you can just think about what you want it to do. Probably 50-100 years off at least, but there are basics being done now (moving a cursor around a screen, etc).
I think speech recognition will be used much more once we start getting more travel-friendly displays (e.g. beaming a display into your eyes from a pair of glasses or nearby low-powered laser). How often have I been driving and thought, "If only I could say 'Google, show me 123 Main Street, Los Angeles, California' and have it pull up some information." Or, "Google, what is 60 mph in kph?" The guys on Star Trek often began sentences with "Computer...", but I think its more likely our first computer interactions that are useful are going to be with utterances of "Search engine..." Arthur C. Clarke wrote about this in a recent book, if I recall.
Also, the places where regular speech recognition would be useful exist now, such as dictating a letter. People dictate letters already.
People talk on phones all the time, why not talk to your computer as well? You can often talk faster than you can type. If recognition catches up, it will be viable.
Some things still will never lend themselves to speech recognition, such as most programming.
The arrogance it takes for an industry to come up with this phrase is just amazing.
I hate to break this to you, but every "industry" comes up with these types of phrases. Ever dealt with a "luser" while doing tech support?
Just because there is a term out there used within the industry doesn't mean amazon.com employees stand around and refer to the "bottom feeders" on the site that day.
But so what if they do? As long as they treat me well and provide the products or services I want, I couldn't care less how they refer to my segment of the population behind closed doors.
Perhaps what's really annoying me is that companies don't want to compete and so are doing everything they can to attract their "ideal" customer while saying "screw you" to the other guys.
Companies do want to compete. Different companies seek out different sweet spots. Some companies will try to sell to everyone, and everyone pays a slightly higher price. Some companies will do what is described in this article, and give benefits to their repeat customers to make them loyal.
I find the practice of turning customers away arrogant and annoying
Then when you find out what stores do it, don't shop there. If enough people look at it that way, they'll change their practices. But be prepared to pay more for products and services if you don't want to deal with certain companies.
Ummm.
1. How will the phone know when you want to dial versus when you want to change the channel. Surely without it knowing this, or you having to flip a switch, you will be annoyed one way or the other. (Changing the channel when you want to dial, and vice versa.)
2. Cell phone keypads are designed to call people (and type messages, sometimes), and remotes are designed to control electronic devices. Other than the 10 digits, I don't see any correlation between the two devices. Why can't your landline phone change the channel? It also has 10 digits. Why can't I pick up the phone, dial #88 (that's "#TV") and just tell my TV what to do?
Just because two things share some things doesn't mean they'd be improved by combining them.
Hello,
Amazingly, you:
(a) Converted my sarcasm to "angst."
(b) Were confused about the target of my sarcasm.
I don't know what issues you got, but go seek professional help of some kind.
Luckily, your issues can be sorted out at your nearest high school reading comprehension center.
When will Firefox implement a graphical representation of the history for the user?
Let me answer you with a graphical representation.
What we'd love to do is drop a fully functional program on the unsuspecting public like a bomb ... but that would mean secrecy is needed until it actually works (or if we're accepted as a stipend, until we're done working in the time period).
Would that even be possible? Not talking about taking it under something other than likely LGPL (makes the most sense for us), just a "hush hush" approach rather than bragging left and right about this great cool project, then having it fizzle.
This is absolutely possible. I recommend hyping it up in slashdot comments. Those fucks at Google didn't give dibona an email account (something about not having any gmail accounts left over), so he has to collect all correspondence on slashdot google posts.
Fortunately this has not been a problem, so far.
Although I have no doubt that the current human-caused warming trends will greatly effect the biodiversty of this planet, I'm not worried about the long term survival of the earth.
... are fucked."
Duh. When people say "Save the Planet!" what they really mean is "Save our asses!" As George Carlin once said,
"The planet is fine! The people
As long as this is limited to the city level, that is fine. Because that means as soon as the government in my city starts taking over where private companies can run things more efficiently, well, that's when I move to a different city.
Have you seen a government organization ever run anything efficiently?
Please tell us what brand of coffee you drink.
McDonald's coffee is pretty decent when taken from a fresh batch.
She should probably be suing the ex.
Why? The ex doesn't have 3 million dollars, after all............
Not evolution? God must've put it back then. It's the only logical solution!
Ummm, more likely they were mistaken about it being extinct.