What kind of comment is that? I'm not telling everybody what to do. I'm merely making a comment on slashdot. Crikey mate. It sure sounds like you are telling what to do! You assume everyone wants to 'overthrow' the politicians. Heck, even your supplied url suggests that!
Since when a business is a democracy I never said it was a democracy. Ok well, I meant "since when a buisness should be a democracy".
Anyway, what bothered me the most about your post was the sheer rage it expressed and the inability to see the good things (and there aren't much) in the current system as well.
The only thing that i can see to get real change is to have a global general strike. Kick out the politicians everywhere. I think you're for dictatorship yourself. Who says the politicians should be kicked? A global general strike is a strike that should be commited by EVERYBODY. Who are you to tell everybody what to do? And I got news for you, politicians will be even after your glorious revolution.
Theres lots of talk about democracy, but for most people, most of their days are spent at work where there is no democracy. Work is a dictatorship. I'm all for workplace democracy. Non-hierachical collectives running things. Are you on crack?! Since when a business is a democracy? Who invests the money? And just as well, nothing is blocking you from raising a company like what you described all by yourself in the current system. Good luck with that!
It's time we took back the power we all have. The power found in co-operation. Nice talk and all, but I don't think what you're looking for is cooperation, but more of groupthink...
About #2 - Is it possible that when a bomb is dropped it has an initial horizontal velocity, but slows down to near-zero horizontal velocity because of air resistance? that thing happens with raindrops, as they reach terminal velocity toward the ground because of air resistance.
Here's the link.
The guy who conceived it works at Microsoft Research. See his resume (WARNING! PDF!)
I think he even did it as part of his job, but for some reason I can't find where I've seen it...
What amazes me most is his ability to make you see the character's face expression although it's a faceless stick figure (eg this).
That and that he seems to be an absolute geek:)
This spells the end for revolutions, for insurgents, freedom fighters whatever you want to call them. This is the final nail in the coffin of home made firearms against your government. Oppressive governments rejoice!
Sad?
So you are sad for the romantic freedom fighters, but not for happy rescue workers? Good idea, lets stop helpful technological advances in order not to let the evil government agents look through walls.
Imagine if the federal government worked like Wikipedia. I could log on to wiki.gov and add new laws and edit existing ones at will, but so could anyone else. It would be pretty cool to see how that would turn out, if you didn't have to live there.
COOL! You don't have to. Why not doing it 'just pretend'? It'll be interesting to see what will come out of it.
Geeks in general, and programming geeks in particular, seem to be very much interested in systems of all sorts. Not just systems in the IT sense, but any group of objects and/or forces with interactions between the elements of the group.
Perhaps you mean system of INTERACTIONS? i.e. the things that is missing in the "classical" geek's real life?
Yes, you're probably right, but I'm not standing corrected.
These are standards that were created as standards, if I understand correctly. It is still very weird for me see a standard seen as OSS.
Thanks for the reply, though.
Not quite. In linux, for example, you got permissions for every file/directory/whatever, so the trojan has limited access to files. In windows it's not quite so trivial.
btw, as I heard over hear, the spyware was installed by Autoplay. It was disguised as a "promotional cd".
Actually, watching the series this is quite a typical behaviour for Mal... If you remember, there was an episode when someone who Mal wants to let free tells him he'll hunt him down. So Mal just shoves him into the ship's turbine. Quite hilarious.
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Anyway, what bothered me the most about your post was the sheer rage it expressed and the inability to see the good things (and there aren't much) in the current system as well.
About #2 - Is it possible that when a bomb is dropped it has an initial horizontal velocity, but slows down to near-zero horizontal velocity because of air resistance? that thing happens with raindrops, as they reach terminal velocity toward the ground because of air resistance.
Here's the link. The guy who conceived it works at Microsoft Research. See his resume (WARNING! PDF!)
I think he even did it as part of his job, but for some reason I can't find where I've seen it...
What amazes me most is his ability to make you see the character's face expression although it's a faceless stick figure (eg this). That and that he seems to be an absolute geek :)
This one nailed it: Console Lines
Que a female astronomer beginning to receive signals from Vega
People at the WTC offices didn't launch rockets at Afganistan, didn't they?
This spells the end for revolutions, for insurgents, freedom fighters whatever you want to call them. This is the final nail in the coffin of home made firearms against your government. Oppressive governments rejoice!
Sad?
So you are sad for the romantic freedom fighters, but not for happy rescue workers?
Good idea, lets stop helpful technological advances in order not to let the evil government agents look through walls.
Imagine if the federal government worked like Wikipedia. I could log on to wiki.gov and add new laws and edit existing ones at will, but so could anyone else.
It would be pretty cool to see how that would turn out, if you didn't have to live there.
COOL! You don't have to. Why not doing it 'just pretend'? It'll be interesting to see what will come out of it.
Perhaps you mean system of INTERACTIONS? i.e. the things that is missing in the "classical" geek's real life?
I wonder if MS will disable the shift-hold thingy in future versions or sps...
SEE THE FUCKING SERIES!
Yeah but do the Bad Guys know it?
But the death penalty is quite unreversible, you can't compensate someone whom you killed...
Yes, you're probably right, but I'm not standing corrected.
These are standards that were created as standards, if I understand correctly.
It is still very weird for me see a standard seen as OSS.
Thanks for the reply, though.
MOD PARENT DOWN!
How for f*ck sake's can you say that HTTP and HTML are OSS? These are frickin standards, not software, how can't they be open?!
The guy doesn't have a product to link it to.
Not quite. In linux, for example, you got permissions for every file/directory/whatever, so the trojan has limited access to files. In windows it's not quite so trivial.
btw, as I heard over hear, the spyware was installed by Autoplay. It was disguised as a "promotional cd".
Actually, watching the series this is quite a typical behaviour for Mal...
If you remember, there was an episode when someone who Mal wants to let free tells him he'll hunt him down. So Mal just shoves him into the ship's turbine. Quite hilarious.
Mod me as flamebait but I got to say - Congrats! This is probably the dumbest post I've ever seen on /.
It showes that you've got no idea what these guys did.
You expect your story being submitted with that amount of links? I can barely read it! It gives me a headache...
I once heard somewhere that good code doesn't need comments.
Made me wonder.
Flash memory. It's been done all the time.