honestly I dont see a problem if someone did take the joke and go after the rebels
Um, it would be the rebels executing the government supporters, in fact.
The hacking was done by pro-government Syrians.
I hope I'm not the only person who finds the idea of a "joke" about people being horribly murdered by rebels who we in the West are supporting somewhat disturbing.
Make it a linux machine with deep ties to the net, not an internet machine with crappy compromises for offline use. Make it an offline machine FIRST, then worry about adding your online hooks.
From Google's point of view, it must have seemed a no-brainer to make what is basically an Android tablet with an attached keyboard. I'm surprised they're not more popular, but I suppose the novelty of having a single tablet is still more appealing to non-geeks.
I used CrunchBang for a brief period of time not too long ago, and while I didn't spend that much time on the forums, I have no complaints about my experience there. A needed to ask one question, I received an answer--no problem. I browsed around a bit and the community there seems nice.
I think your statistical methodology could do with peer review into its robustness and fitness-for-purpose.
Oh noes, it could be American Idol. Who gives a flipping fuck what the sheeple will get miscounted on their precious America TV for the lazy ass? What about something that actually matters like an election?
Have you ever voted in a slashdot poll? Have you ever laughed at a cat meme on the internet? Do you spend any time watching porn? Do you watch comedy shows on TV?
How dare you waste your time when you should be designing cold fusion reactors or researching a cure for cancer or something else useful!
These reality shows aren't contests at all. They're very carefully orchestrated bits of entertainment designed to engage the audience and make them feel involved.
Sounds pretty much like the Web 2.0 + model of the internet.
It's a fucking disgrace that you're forced to watch the Voice, Britain/America's Got Talent, and the rest, and that your TV has no channel control or on/off switch.
No one forces anybody to watch television. If you feel socially pressurized to watch a particular show, that is just a sign of the pathetic weakness of your character.
In fact, a bit of harmless entertainment is good for you. Life is not, whatever some slashdotters seem to think, purely about working 18 hours a day at your job.
No, they're entertainment, just like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Firefly or whatever nerd-friendly TV show you can think of.
I'm sure some people here only ever listen to Beethoven, read Shakespeare, watch Ingmar Bergman classics and use the internet for academic research, but the rest of us like some trash in our lives.
9 AM? What lazy teenagers start class at 9 AM? Mine always started at 7:35 AM.
I think it's telling that you can remember the time so precisely. I assume that it's in the way people can account for every permanent scar on their body.
I seem to remember starting at about 9, but I really couldn't care less (or remember) if it was actually 8.50 or 9.05
I recall Junior year of high school. Biology and Geometry were my first two classes, and I would fall asleep during the latter due to late nights exploring the nascent Interweb.
How much of that "can't pay attention" is due to the one-size-fits-all education levels by age/grade in American education? We have programs for slower students very early on, but gifted students are expected to stay behind and be bored to tears doing lessons and homework for concepts they already grasp. The first time many students are really challenged are high school honors classes.
This is the perennial whine of the slashdot self-diagnosed genius, but it's just nonsense. If you're that special, your teachers will notice and do something about it.
Without those to pass the time when I wasn't ready to sleep, I used to read books, but somehow reading a book doesn't make you less sleepy. I mean, if you're really into the story you can stay awake for just one more chapter, but it takes some effort. With computers, it's very easy to lose track of time.
Personally, I find it much easier to lose track of time reading a book. I agree that if you're really tired, a book is better for helping you nod off though, because it simply has less to distract you. With a computer, you can flick between different games, conversations or whatever which is the mental equivalent of a quick splash of cold water on your face..
Schools have historically shoved their schedules extra-early so that extracurricular events like sports can occur before the sun goes down, but after school.
Solution, abolish sports. You go to school to learn. You can play with your balls on your own time.
Yes, because modern kids have so much physical exercise already that a few hours of sports at school wmakes little difference anyway. I mean, most kids are out from 3 til 6 or so just running around the fields, climbing trees and playing impromptu games of football in the street.
Oh, wait, no that was when I was young. Nowadays, they're driven home from school by their parents and plonked in front of a laptop/TV until bed time, with occasional pauses for processed food snacks and sugar-laden fizzy drinks.
Nature doesn't have cars with subwoofers, harley-davidson bikes and idiots using streets as racing tracks.
But it does have cocks crowing at dawn, pigeons fucking outside your window at the same time, blood-curdling screams and cries from animals being hunted by predators at 2am and so on.
The general background level of quiet actually makes these sound worse than they are in the countryside.
I'd wager you don't work in construction nor have you ever studied recent materials science in sound dampening.
"I wish I had a much older house." - said no one ever
I know it's different in America where you build houses out of plywood and anything built before the Korean war is practically an historic monument, but here in the UK, older houses are much, much nicer. Bigger, better construction, bigger gardens, you name it. Yes they may require updating for insulation, but that's about it.
They generally cost more on upkeep just because of the size, but within reason the older the house the better. If I was rich, I would love a mansion from the Eighteenth century rather than some new-built plastic pile of shite with 10 bedrooms 10 by 6 feet and 5 bathrooms 20 by 16.
Does anyone truly care about performance in public schools when public schools are obviously pure garbage? They're rote memorization paradises and little more than that.
No, blame the schools because they let out the kids out at 4 PM.
If schools let them out at 1 PM instead of 4 PM, then cartoon time and prime time can be moved forward 3 hours, and then little school children everywhere could go to bed at 8 PM instead of 11 PM, and nobody would be having this problem of not enough sleep.
The problem is devices. The light emitted by phones, laptops, tablets, etc., cause the body's circadian rhythm to go out of whack. The body begins to think that daylight lasts longer than it does, and that it should be awake longer than it should. This doesn't reduce the amount of sleep that the body needs, but since it believes that daylight lasts longer, it doesn't get 'sleepy' as early as it should.
What are you talking about? If you're stupid enough to leave lights on while you're trying to go to sleep it probably won't help, but it's not the reason why you can't sleep.
I'm pretty sure it's so parents have time to drop off their kids at school on the way to work.
Parents should not be taking their kids to school after the age of about 4 or 5.
It is one of the most ridiculous things to have happened during my lifetime. Kids should walk, cycle or get a bus (depending on distance). There is absolutely no advantage whatsoever in parents driving their kids to school. It makes the kids physically lazy and infantilises them. They have no freedom to play with friends on the way to school, or hang around afterwards talking, or explore on their own.
It's all part of society's destruction of childhood. Children go from toddler straight to whining entitled adolescent.
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honestly I dont see a problem if someone did take the joke and go after the rebels
Um, it would be the rebels executing the government supporters, in fact.
The hacking was done by pro-government Syrians.
I hope I'm not the only person who finds the idea of a "joke" about people being horribly murdered by rebels who we in the West are supporting somewhat disturbing.
Most of us urban/suburban types can wifi tether to our smartphones.
Fine if you've got a reliable 4g service, a generous data allowance and a couple of spare batteries for your phone.
Make it a linux machine with deep ties to the net, not an internet machine with crappy compromises for offline use. Make it an offline machine FIRST, then worry about adding your online hooks.
From Google's point of view, it must have seemed a no-brainer to make what is basically an Android tablet with an attached keyboard. I'm surprised they're not more popular, but I suppose the novelty of having a single tablet is still more appealing to non-geeks.
I used CrunchBang for a brief period of time not too long ago, and while I didn't spend that much time on the forums, I have no complaints about my experience there. A needed to ask one question, I received an answer--no problem. I browsed around a bit and the community there seems nice.
I think your statistical methodology could do with peer review into its robustness and fitness-for-purpose.
a site for addle brained people whose concerns reach no further than the next amusement to distract them from realizing their own mediocrity.
Jeez, if you hate slashdot that much, just stop visiting.
Oh noes, it could be American Idol. Who gives a flipping fuck what the sheeple will get miscounted on their precious America TV for the lazy ass? What about something that actually matters like an election?
Have you ever voted in a slashdot poll? Have you ever laughed at a cat meme on the internet? Do you spend any time watching porn? Do you watch comedy shows on TV?
How dare you waste your time when you should be designing cold fusion reactors or researching a cure for cancer or something else useful!
These reality shows aren't contests at all. They're very carefully orchestrated bits of entertainment designed to engage the audience and make them feel involved.
Sounds pretty much like the Web 2.0 + model of the internet.
Honestly, it's just like 1984.
In fact, a bit of harmless entertainment is good for you. Life is not, whatever some slashdotters seem to think, purely about working 18 hours a day at your job.
Reality shows are a farce.
No, they're entertainment, just like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Firefly or whatever nerd-friendly TV show you can think of.
I'm sure some people here only ever listen to Beethoven, read Shakespeare, watch Ingmar Bergman classics and use the internet for academic research, but the rest of us like some trash in our lives.
Also, this might be the dawn of malware for Linux on the PC.
Then it will truly be the year of Linux on the desktop, as Windows will lose its one remaining USP. Hold on a sec...
9 AM? What lazy teenagers start class at 9 AM? Mine always started at 7:35 AM.
I think it's telling that you can remember the time so precisely. I assume that it's in the way people can account for every permanent scar on their body.
I seem to remember starting at about 9, but I really couldn't care less (or remember) if it was actually 8.50 or 9.05
I recall Junior year of high school. Biology and Geometry were my first two classes, and I would fall asleep during the latter due to late nights exploring the nascent Interweb.
AKA "masturbating furiously into a sock".
How much of that "can't pay attention" is due to the one-size-fits-all education levels by age/grade in American education? We have programs for slower students very early on, but gifted students are expected to stay behind and be bored to tears doing lessons and homework for concepts they already grasp. The first time many students are really challenged are high school honors classes.
This is the perennial whine of the slashdot self-diagnosed genius, but it's just nonsense. If you're that special, your teachers will notice and do something about it.
School starts VERY early here as well (kids have to be at school by 7:30AM.)
This happens in hot Mediterranean countries, but the kids get a proper siesta and finish early too.
Without those to pass the time when I wasn't ready to sleep, I used to read books, but somehow reading a book doesn't make you less sleepy. I mean, if you're really into the story you can stay awake for just one more chapter, but it takes some effort. With computers, it's very easy to lose track of time.
Personally, I find it much easier to lose track of time reading a book. I agree that if you're really tired, a book is better for helping you nod off though, because it simply has less to distract you. With a computer, you can flick between different games, conversations or whatever which is the mental equivalent of a quick splash of cold water on your face..
Schools have historically shoved their schedules extra-early so that extracurricular events like sports can occur before the sun goes down, but after school.
Solution, abolish sports. You go to school to learn. You can play with your balls on your own time.
Yes, because modern kids have so much physical exercise already that a few hours of sports at school wmakes little difference anyway. I mean, most kids are out from 3 til 6 or so just running around the fields, climbing trees and playing impromptu games of football in the street.
Oh, wait, no that was when I was young. Nowadays, they're driven home from school by their parents and plonked in front of a laptop/TV until bed time, with occasional pauses for processed food snacks and sugar-laden fizzy drinks.
Nature doesn't have cars with subwoofers, harley-davidson bikes and idiots using streets as racing tracks.
But it does have cocks crowing at dawn, pigeons fucking outside your window at the same time, blood-curdling screams and cries from animals being hunted by predators at 2am and so on.
The general background level of quiet actually makes these sound worse than they are in the countryside.
It seems you've never been annoyed by loud thumping music that you can hear from ten blocks away.
There is quite a simple solution to the problem of inner city noise: don't live in an inner city.
Complaining about background noise in a city makes about as much sense as complaining about the smell of cow shit in the countryside.
Given increasingly shoddy construction
I'd wager you don't work in construction nor have you ever studied recent materials science in sound dampening. "I wish I had a much older house." - said no one ever
I know it's different in America where you build houses out of plywood and anything built before the Korean war is practically an historic monument, but here in the UK, older houses are much, much nicer. Bigger, better construction, bigger gardens, you name it. Yes they may require updating for insulation, but that's about it.
They generally cost more on upkeep just because of the size, but within reason the older the house the better. If I was rich, I would love a mansion from the Eighteenth century rather than some new-built plastic pile of shite with 10 bedrooms 10 by 6 feet and 5 bathrooms 20 by 16.
Does anyone truly care about performance in public schools when public schools are obviously pure garbage? They're rote memorization paradises and little more than that.
So? they're still better than nothing.
Or home schooling. * shudders *
No, blame the schools because they let out the kids out at 4 PM.
If schools let them out at 1 PM instead of 4 PM, then cartoon time and prime time can be moved forward 3 hours, and then little school children everywhere could go to bed at 8 PM instead of 11 PM, and nobody would be having this problem of not enough sleep.
So you'd start school at 6am or something?
Clearly there are no down sides to that at all.
The problem is devices. The light emitted by phones, laptops, tablets, etc., cause the body's circadian rhythm to go out of whack. The body begins to think that daylight lasts longer than it does, and that it should be awake longer than it should. This doesn't reduce the amount of sleep that the body needs, but since it believes that daylight lasts longer, it doesn't get 'sleepy' as early as it should.
What are you talking about? If you're stupid enough to leave lights on while you're trying to go to sleep it probably won't help, but it's not the reason why you can't sleep.
I'm pretty sure it's so parents have time to drop off their kids at school on the way to work.
Parents should not be taking their kids to school after the age of about 4 or 5.
It is one of the most ridiculous things to have happened during my lifetime. Kids should walk, cycle or get a bus (depending on distance). There is absolutely no advantage whatsoever in parents driving their kids to school. It makes the kids physically lazy and infantilises them. They have no freedom to play with friends on the way to school, or hang around afterwards talking, or explore on their own.
It's all part of society's destruction of childhood. Children go from toddler straight to whining entitled adolescent.