Hack either means security breach, or an awful clusterfuck, as in hackjob.
The fact that a bunch of techie douchebags and their lapdogs use the word to try and sound edgy is irrelevant to it's meaning outside of your little echo chamber.
You are wrong.
A hack is a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
I thought it was a type of horse. Or an English journalist. Or a nasty cough.
Holy vocabulary batman, it's almost like words can mean different things at different times in different contexts!
The thing made of sticks (it's a bundle of bundles of fairly big logs) is called a fascine. The clever thing is that it's not bound too tightly so it automagically conforms to spread the load and fill the hole.
It was carried on a special tipper mount on the front of the tank.
Nah, just tie on some of those mylar party balloon filled with helium.
They'll make your pack much lighter, and they come in bright festive colors to boot!
It's always good to hear from actual combat veterans rather than the usual slashdot armchair generals.
Your knees are going to become vertical frisbees and will penetrate the Earth with such force that Satan will actually become real, rise up and will destroy all of us.
That was my first thought too, but if that's the case, why a cockroach? Sure, it has a small size that can go unnoticed much of the time, but if someone sees a cockroach their first instinct is to kill it, and crunching down on a bunch of electronics is going to have a different sound and feel than squishing a real cockroach. At that point the spies are suspected.
I'd choose something cute, cuddly, dumb, and not particularly agile, like hamsters.
But then there is the danger of your spy-hamster "accidentally" ending up in someone's bottom and having to be removed in A&E.
"The goal is to do all they can to prevent the crime from happening."
How can you know if you have succeeded? How do you know what would have happened if you hadn't done something? Unfortunately, reality does not have a control group.
You would obviously have to look at over all crime statistics. I know this will horrify the rugged individualists and libertarians here.
You can't charge someone with attempted murder until after they've already attempted it... In case you hadn't noticed, the tense of "attempted" is past tense. The most you can charge them with intent to commit murder, or conspiracy to commit murder.
Conspiracy to murder is an extremely serious offence, in the UK at least it carries a potential life sentence, the same as murder.
The point is that if you are a member of a priveleged group, then you don't (or shouldn't) need any help. There aren't special government scholarship funds, mentoring services and anti-discrimination laws for rich male WASPs because they don't need them.
If you actually mentioned certain other groups associated with such things, your post would be labled -1 troll for bigotry.. but since you said 'males', everyone yucks it up and votes you +5 funny. Unintentionally (or perhaps intentionally?), you highlighted the systemic cultural bias against men.
MRA alert - you are now entering the Twilight Zone, and I'm not talking about sparkly vampires.
Horseshit. Find me a single customer who cared about the emissions output. People buy diesel cars for the durability and the fuel economy, and VW delivered on those. The only people they defrauded was the EPA. How did this cost customers money? How did it cost taxpayers money? The only people this really affected were the shareholders.
Not everyone is a selfish loon who thinks everything done by The Government is evil.
Keep in mind that Linden Labs are working on "Sansar", which is supposed to be a successor to Second Life optimized for VR.
As for Facebook World? I tried to imagine FB doing something like SL, and then I laughed. . . and laughed. There would be massive culture shock, that's for sure. Just imagine Facebook trying to deal with Militant Nudists, Goreans, Voreans, Fatfur Pokemorphs, etc.
SL is what the word "counter-culture" should have really been coined for.
You sound like you're one of the dozen people who ever used SL more than once.
Yes and in the mean time you lose your house, car, and your kids go hungry. And the woman that would love you till death do you apart? She meant financial death. She will leave you for putting your family's financial livelihood in jeopardy to do some half-ass ethics play. You may get some money from the settlement, but the whole thing will now be part of public record. Good luck getting hired ANYWHERE else.
It's easy to be an idealist on paper, especially if you have nothing to lose. Real life is a tad more complicated.
Bullshit. If someone asks, you say "I was fired for wrongful dismissal when I refused to commit a crime/do something entirely unethical". This is actually a plus point on your CV (unless you actually want to work for dodgy companies).
Thing is, if it blows up in your face later because you get caught, you're screwed anyway, and probably harder than if you'd wrote your job off to begin with.
Criminals pretty much by definition don't think they're going to get caught.
Having letters after our name and belonging to a professional institute gives you added leverage when it comes to declining unethical orders from your bosses, although in reality whistleblowing will just make it harder to get a job in future (unless it is very definitely an individual suggesting the unethical behaviour, and not a company policy).
Well, I know we've all been waiting with bated breath to have cat videos rendered in immersive VR.
No, wait, the other one... so, I can what, scroll around in the movie? I'm afraid I'm not getting the point of this. This sounds like one of those technologies which people want to create but nobody knows why they'd need it.
Maybe I don't watch enough cat videos.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this will surely become popular if it makes porn better.
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Hack either means security breach, or an awful clusterfuck, as in hackjob.
The fact that a bunch of techie douchebags and their lapdogs use the word to try and sound edgy is irrelevant to it's meaning outside of your little echo chamber.
You are wrong. A hack is a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
I thought it was a type of horse. Or an English journalist. Or a nasty cough.
Holy vocabulary batman, it's almost like words can mean different things at different times in different contexts!
Where did I say anyone shouldn't hear about it? Read a history book about WW II if you are interesting. But it is NOT FUCKING NEWS! Got it?
But you get similar replies from snotty physicists or chemists or biologists every time there's a popular science story.
"Duh, I did post-doctoral research on that three years ago, how is it news?"
Well, thanks for letting us know how knowledgeable you are about one particular subject.
The thing made of sticks (it's a bundle of bundles of fairly big logs) is called a fascine. The clever thing is that it's not bound too tightly so it automagically conforms to spread the load and fill the hole.
It was carried on a special tipper mount on the front of the tank.
They still use fascines in the military today.
Nah, just tie on some of those mylar party balloon filled with helium. They'll make your pack much lighter, and they come in bright festive colors to boot!
It's always good to hear from actual combat veterans rather than the usual slashdot armchair generals.
Your knees are going to become vertical frisbees and will penetrate the Earth with such force that Satan will actually become real, rise up and will destroy all of us.
Now you're just being silly.
That was my first thought too, but if that's the case, why a cockroach? Sure, it has a small size that can go unnoticed much of the time, but if someone sees a cockroach their first instinct is to kill it, and crunching down on a bunch of electronics is going to have a different sound and feel than squishing a real cockroach. At that point the spies are suspected.
I'd choose something cute, cuddly, dumb, and not particularly agile, like hamsters.
But then there is the danger of your spy-hamster "accidentally" ending up in someone's bottom and having to be removed in A&E.
From TFA:
"The goal is to do all they can to prevent the crime from happening."
How can you know if you have succeeded? How do you know what would have happened if you hadn't done something? Unfortunately, reality does not have a control group.
You would obviously have to look at over all crime statistics. I know this will horrify the rugged individualists and libertarians here.
You can't charge someone with attempted murder until after they've already attempted it... In case you hadn't noticed, the tense of "attempted" is past tense. The most you can charge them with intent to commit murder, or conspiracy to commit murder.
Conspiracy to murder is an extremely serious offence, in the UK at least it carries a potential life sentence, the same as murder.
The point is that if you are a member of a priveleged group, then you don't (or shouldn't) need any help. There aren't special government scholarship funds, mentoring services and anti-discrimination laws for rich male WASPs because they don't need them.
If you actually mentioned certain other groups associated with such things, your post would be labled -1 troll for bigotry.. but since you said 'males', everyone yucks it up and votes you +5 funny. Unintentionally (or perhaps intentionally?), you highlighted the systemic cultural bias against men.
MRA alert - you are now entering the Twilight Zone, and I'm not talking about sparkly vampires.
Turn that rap shit off. That's a good start.
Yeah, why can't they play proper white music like jazz or rock n roll? Oh, wait...
The net effect is that all governing officials are malevolent, and only some competent.
Not everyone lives in the US.
Horseshit. Find me a single customer who cared about the emissions output. People buy diesel cars for the durability and the fuel economy, and VW delivered on those. The only people they defrauded was the EPA. How did this cost customers money? How did it cost taxpayers money? The only people this really affected were the shareholders.
Not everyone is a selfish loon who thinks everything done by The Government is evil.
Without the Russians, the US is also incapable of getting to space
To be fair, they could always go and nick one of China or India's rockets.
I kinda want to write some amateur sci-fi on this topic... if I actually had any modicum of talent for writing.
A total absence of talent for writing is no longer an obstacle to writing. Just look at any fanfic forum for proof.
Keep in mind that Linden Labs are working on "Sansar", which is supposed to be a successor to Second Life optimized for VR.
As for Facebook World? I tried to imagine FB doing something like SL, and then I laughed. . . and laughed. There would be massive culture shock, that's for sure. Just imagine Facebook trying to deal with Militant Nudists, Goreans, Voreans, Fatfur Pokemorphs, etc.
SL is what the word "counter-culture" should have really been coined for.
You sound like you're one of the dozen people who ever used SL more than once.
To be fair, his keyboard was quite cool and he wrote the Hovis theme tune.
Yes and in the mean time you lose your house, car, and your kids go hungry. And the woman that would love you till death do you apart? She meant financial death. She will leave you for putting your family's financial livelihood in jeopardy to do some half-ass ethics play. You may get some money from the settlement, but the whole thing will now be part of public record. Good luck getting hired ANYWHERE else.
It's easy to be an idealist on paper, especially if you have nothing to lose. Real life is a tad more complicated.
Bullshit. If someone asks, you say "I was fired for wrongful dismissal when I refused to commit a crime/do something entirely unethical". This is actually a plus point on your CV (unless you actually want to work for dodgy companies).
Thing is, if it blows up in your face later because you get caught, you're screwed anyway, and probably harder than if you'd wrote your job off to begin with.
Criminals pretty much by definition don't think they're going to get caught.
That sounds very ideal, and it is the kind of comment that people make when talking about such situations in the hypothetical.
The real world is never that black and white.
No, some things really are black and white. Choosing to commit a crime is one of those.
Having letters after our name and belonging to a professional institute gives you added leverage when it comes to declining unethical orders from your bosses, although in reality whistleblowing will just make it harder to get a job in future (unless it is very definitely an individual suggesting the unethical behaviour, and not a company policy).
Professional Engineers have the power to say no and they have Ethics rules to fall back on.
Programmers are not necessarily professional engineers.
Well, I know we've all been waiting with bated breath to have cat videos rendered in immersive VR.
No, wait, the other one ... so, I can what, scroll around in the movie? I'm afraid I'm not getting the point of this. This sounds like one of those technologies which people want to create but nobody knows why they'd need it.
Maybe I don't watch enough cat videos.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this will surely become popular if it makes porn better.
I use windows as my primary OS, at work and at home
I think I hear the sound of pitchforks being sharpened and torches lit...
Christmas tree, Christmas tree, Budweiser, Pizza, rabid weasel, rabid weasel, rabid weasel
Sounds like the call sign of a Special Forces team on acid.