Balmer: You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more my servant. You: No !!! Balmer: It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father, are now mine.
The same could well be said for the vast majority of human beings born at any given time in history. The position that we first-worlders hold today is pretty much unique in the quality and quantity of life and life's experiences. Look back at what even upper class people had to deal with throughout the last, say thousand years and rejoice at how easy we have it.
Certainly things could get worse. Things will get worse for a lot of people and your personal decision to have progeny is just that, but life has always been rather much of a gamble with a lot of people (and animals for that matter) suffering through there existence.
It's like telling poor people they should stop stealing and just lie down and starve. Sure in an ideal world that's what they would do.
The scary thing is that there really are people who believe that poor people should just lie down and starve, as if respecting property rights is more important than staying alive.
The really scary thing is people like you who think that TV shows and commercial software are needed to survive. The rest of the planet and the rest of history would like a word with you.
The best analogy for this, I think, is a *nix distro—the human genome is a monolithic kernel, and the bacteria are all the shell scripts and daemons that help manage it.
Or 1Password. You can use an iPhone or Android phone. The data is encrypted. Yes, the NSA can probably get to it, no they probably wont bother. Should be adequate for most users. If you lose the phone and you're worried about somebody breaking the encryption you can log into DropBox (or whoever you have the file stored with) and delete it or just change the password from another device.
Not perfect, but pretty damned good and a hell of a lot more user friendly than some of the Totally Paranoid suggestions around here.
If you need security beyond this level, you should hone up on your ninja skills, get a bodyguard and not sleep in the same bed twice.
Now all we need are some anti gravity thrusters and we have the mapping pups of Prometheus.
Come on Google, you've done the hard part with taking over the planet - now lets get working on gravity. (Or is Apple supposed to do that after they get the watch thingy to work?)
Uh, no. 'No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame".
You can actually get a pretty good handle on how a bit of technology will do by using the inverse of what the Slashdot hive mind says on any given subject.
Good thing that climate scientists aren't puzzled about that. If they were, they would have wigs (or breast implants these days) and be called weatherman (weather persons?).
Slashdot Mirror
So, you want the US Postal Service to control the Internet?
Send in the Clowns!
Balmer: You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more my servant.
You: No !!!
Balmer: It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father, are now mine.
Now, now, he's talking about Adobe and Autodesk. This sort of thing isn't very far fetched.
Really, guys...
An even scarier thought. It's NOT a fake question.
Yelling 'get off my lawn' is helpful?
Here, read this.
You will feel better in a moment.
The same could well be said for the vast majority of human beings born at any given time in history. The position that we first-worlders hold today is pretty much unique in the quality and quantity of life and life's experiences. Look back at what even upper class people had to deal with throughout the last, say thousand years and rejoice at how easy we have it.
Certainly things could get worse. Things will get worse for a lot of people and your personal decision to have progeny is just that, but life has always been rather much of a gamble with a lot of people (and animals for that matter) suffering through there existence.
It's not like the universe cares or anything.
Now I'm all depressed again.
I suppose with the bad drought you all are having, it makes sense to avoid cloud-based solutions.
I bet Obama's doing it. Venezuela did offer Snowden citizenship.
No, Obama is responsible for climate change and the Kennedy assassination.
Get it straight.
Thank you.
Ok you naysayers, this is what /. is good for. Along with recycled jokes and car analogies of course.
You could log in and be on Classic in one jiffy!
Ah, the innocence of youth.
Yes. You can't stick you nose in my asshole without my permission. It's private. No electronic devices have been hooked up to my blackhole.
Time for your colonoscopy, comrade!
Imagine, a database. Storing data. That you can run reports on.
Simply amazing what computers can do these days.
It's like telling poor people they should stop stealing and just lie down and starve. Sure in an ideal world that's what they would do.
The scary thing is that there really are people who believe that poor people should just lie down and starve, as if respecting property rights is more important than staying alive.
The really scary thing is people like you who think that TV shows and commercial software are needed to survive. The rest of the planet and the rest of history would like a word with you.
Wow. A post from the 1950's. I didn't think we even had computers then.
Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a good blaster.
The best analogy for this, I think, is a *nix distro—the human genome is a monolithic kernel, and the bacteria are all the shell scripts and daemons that help manage it.
It's funnier if you run it the other way.
I always knew humans were basically full of shit.
Or 1Password. You can use an iPhone or Android phone. The data is encrypted. Yes, the NSA can probably get to it, no they probably wont bother. Should be adequate for most users. If you lose the phone and you're worried about somebody breaking the encryption you can log into DropBox (or whoever you have the file stored with) and delete it or just change the password from another device.
Not perfect, but pretty damned good and a hell of a lot more user friendly than some of the Totally Paranoid suggestions around here.
If you need security beyond this level, you should hone up on your ninja skills, get a bodyguard and not sleep in the same bed twice.
Now all we need are some anti gravity thrusters and we have the mapping pups of Prometheus.
Come on Google, you've done the hard part with taking over the planet - now lets get working on gravity. (Or is Apple supposed to do that after they get the watch thingy to work?)
What about sheep?
This is a family oriented web site. Take your perversions over to /b/.
Uh, no. 'No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame".
You can actually get a pretty good handle on how a bit of technology will do by using the inverse of what the Slashdot hive mind says on any given subject.
The cherry picking and slanted explanation of the data most assuredly does.
Good thing that climate scientists aren't puzzled about that. If they were, they would have wigs (or breast implants these days) and be called weatherman (weather persons?).