I am addicted to opiates, this year I first lost the love of my life to suicide, then my best friend to an OD, then my grandma to a stroke and finally my dad's cancer has come back, this time metastizing. My life is a complete trainwreck right now, but I cannot inflict this kind of pain onto the people who love me and care about me - so yeah, best facebook related news in a long time. If you find yourself holding a gun to your head while already having the syringe with a 100mg dose of Ultiva pressed to your vein standing on a bridge with a rope around your neck like me half a year ago, just wanting to die so bad... Think about the other lives you are about to fuck up and do the only thing even remotely able to help your situation: cry out for help! Talk to somebody! Anyone! I am 25 and don't know how I will ever be able to smile again, but suicide is just the cruelest action you could ever take against the people loving you.
Hell, if you need somebodY to talk and noone else is there, email me at neofaschistoide underscore banane at web dot de
Just don't do it, please! I am still completely ripped apart inside a year after she died:/
Now we've got the blinding light weapon, and the deafening sound weapon, and that Ray Gun that makes your skin feel like it's on fire. All this massive R&D going into novel crowd control technologies. It's almost as if the US Government anticipates needing fancy new riot gear. Wonder why that could be.
Ugh, now I am that parent. I ordered my daughter a Nook Simple Touch ($99 E-Ink reader) for Christmas this year because (1) she really likes to read, (2) reading is the only thing I want her to do on it, and (3) $99 is about my upper limit for a portable electronic device for a kid. But now her friend has an iPad and all the other kids are awestruck by it. I used to have my daughter pretty well brainwashed against i-devices (she would say, "don't call my mp3 player an iPod!) but peer influence is so much stronger than parental as they get older.
A government agency does not want to hand over information that may link it to abusing its power.
The only thing we know for sure is that the companies that installed this iCarrier spyware definitely abused their power.
If the abuse goes up to the FBI, then there's no way that information is not going to come out. We'll know soon enough where iCarrier came from and where we should aim our ire. The iCarrier story is just getting started.
You know i love you like i do my brothers PopeRatzo, but wtf is iCarrier?
You making shit up again?
This discussion is about Carrier IQ, not whatever you are talking about.
You do realise that manned spacecraft tend to be rigorously tested first? The first moon landing was done by the 11th Apollo craft for a reason, you know.
Do you realize that everyone came within a hairs breadth of dying on the 13th Apollo mission? Oh yeah, everyone DID die on the space shuttle challenger AND Columbia. Also, don't forget the entire Apollo 1 crew died in a fire on the ground. Sure it's tested, but that doesn't mean it's safe.
There are too many people on Slashdot that disagree just to be contrary
Point? Airplanes are tested, and yet they crash. Cars are tested and yet they crash. And yes, they kill people also.
My doctor switched me to Lipitor so i could get the generic version for cheaper.
Currently, i have to pay $3.00 for name brand meds, and $1 for generic, but that is like tripling in feb 2012. Damn Medicare, or whatever it is. (no, i don't really pay attention.)
So, instead of having a train slow down and stop, we are going to have a bunch of moving platforms that does the starting and stopping instead. hmm, wonder how much that will cost? Not to mention you just a bunch of points of failure, instead of just the train.
Also, how long does these "platforms" travel. Your talking probably a few miles at least the platforms have to move, even more the faster trains go.
The thermal-imaging camera captures variations in facial temperature in response to questioning. "When someone is making something up on the spot, brain activity usually changes and you can detect this through the thermal camera," said professor Hassan Ugail, who leads the research.
Dang, i guess the "bad" people will have to just work out stories ahead of time, so they always have an answer ready.
The DEA could easily tell whomever gives the licenses to approve this guy, but they choose not to. Instead, they want to blame it on criminals, instead of where the blame really lies, which is the bullshit anti-drug laws that we have too many of.
We could legalize meth, have the government or some pharmacy make it safely, and then every loser that wants to do it won't be supporting the people who make it.
The problem here is not meth addicts, it's the bullshit they go thru to make the meth, which hurts consumers more. You won't have druggies stealing the crap the makes meth, you won't have places become toxic because people are making meth in their bathtub/kitchen.
America, the land of the hypocrites and home of the illusion of freedom.
This is what I hate about Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Google Music, and every other digital music vendor - limited selection. I can get show X or album Y on service 1, but not on service 2.
I want every CD, every DVD, and every TV show available to me digitally. That's what we all want. It's not like they aren't already sitting in some digital format somewhere.
I've long thought that digital media should be like the Internet, with individual Music Service Providers competing based on their interface, features, etc., and not on their catalog. In other words, all content available through everyone and that's not why you choose one over the other.
iTunes, Google Music, Netflix, etc. are simply recreations of the record company distribution monopoly. At least with record companies, there was one LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD standard. Today you can own a piece of media and not be able to play it on all your devices.
Weird, thepiratebay.org and other sites, don't have the problem. If it can be digitized, you can download it.
This is why I don't pay for stuff, because they don't need money and they sure as fuck don't understand the market. So screw them. Because they will screw you over, if it makes them even the slightest profit.
Apparently if I worked (that god i don't) i'd have to get a robot to do my crap, because I'm a bit bad with social cues, I'd wear dark sunglasses to a meeting (because i'm probably going to sleep during it), and fuck ya i'm obnoxious.
But seriously, wtf? Is it about patenting things you want to do, or about patenting every possible action under the sun so you can charge people to do, well, everything?
Of course, it's mostly EQ2, but hey, it's gaming, right? Not like i play farmville or something.
I get in my FPS's and my car racing games also.
In fact, i plan to spend rest of my life playing video games. Granted i'm shooting for a death in my 60's (getting older would really suck), but i got a good 20 years of some hardcore gaming left to do.
I was blessed with a big forehead and a big head (physically), so my brain has room to grow, unless it's already big. Guess I'll donate my head to Video Game Science when I die.
Very simple. Do NOT have secrets. If everything is open, then no one can surprise you buy selling secrets.
I'm going to get very hippy here, but how about we trying being nice to people in other countries, instead of telling them what to do, what to buy, and what corporations to let fuck you in the ass.
How about we go in and build up infrastructures, ie water, electricy, housing, instead of killing people?
Being dicks, only makes everyone not like you.
How about we share, instead of hoarding, and give away instead of charging everyone for everything?
ROFL, like that will happen.
oh, ya, and people selling secrets, that won't stop ever either, not if you keep on being the same dicks, i mean, treating everyone like they are lucky to have us.
As an educated (BS in SE), 25 year old male who has attempted suicide twice (and failed by chance/luck/bad luck), in general we do send out cries for help. They get dismissed or go unnoticed. They aren't "I'm going to kill myself tonight. Don't try to stop me." but more like "I don't really care" or "I just cause problems" along with a passive shrug cause you don't want to make the other person feel bad too.
Personally if someone had noticed my attempts, I think I would've been better off. The ones that are vocal about it get help, the ones that are discovered before death get help, but the ones that are barely strong enough to keep from going all the way just linger on in quiet misery without being able to get help or end it.
My respect to the guy. Humans die easily, but it takes a lot to kill yourself. He was stronger than me.
Humans do die easy, and life is dirt cheap on this planet.
but killing yourself because life gets rough? Seriously?
I take depression meds, but I am not suicidal. Because I understand shit happens. most the time it's other people it happens to, on occasion, it's me who gets shit on. And it's how i react to that shit that makes me a person. I don't take the "easy way out", I deal with it.
You think it wouldn't be easier to just give up, and die? Ya, it would. But fuck that, i'm not some wimp. I am not afraid of death, in fact, i'm looking forward to death and seeing what happens, but it will happen in time, no use rushing it.
What i've found, for every shitty situation that life has for me, that once you get thru it, you've grown. I've been a herion addict. I've spent countless times getting "clean" in jail, i've spent too many times being homeless. And if i had given up, I wouldn't today have a nice apartment with a view, for really cheap (low income housing), I wouldn't have internet, or my EQ2 game to play. I wouldn't of beat my addiction, and i sure as hell would of never gotten to finish the Wheel of Time series. And i sure as hell would of never met the sister I have (half sister, from mom, put up for adoption before i was born).
So, sorry. If I can stay alive for the crappy parts, everyone one can also.
Maybe put him in the care of people who aren't suffering from depression?
Um, I suffer from depression and I am not suicidal at all. You do understand that while depression and suicide is linked, it's not a "every depressed person is suicidal" thing.
Very true words... health is one of those things that gets stolen away from you almost literally overnight and from there it's a major struggle to get back to normality. Most of us as kids would screw up our faces when our parents would say "You've got your health" when we moaned about not having anything - sadly, as with so many things, you don't realise how true that is until you're older.
The trouble is, you trip up with something, that later causes something else...and so on... you find yourself snowballing down into the pit of death.
Yes, that is called life. It happens to all of us.
To all young, horny, self-absorbed, invincible little gods of the internet: you're never too young. The cosmos cares not for you.
Value your health. Value your safety.
Accomplish something while you still can, just as Ilya did.
No, life can be short, have fun while you can, because tomorrow you might be dead, crippled, in jail, or be accused of being a terrorist/hacker/pirate.
My best friend died recently, boom! Was in fine health, didn't have any problems, but found dead at his computer. All it does is reinforce the fact that shit happens, to anyone.
Should I live scared like I am going to die? Fuck no. But i am going to make sure i do all the fun stuff I want to.
Live life, have fun, enjoy it.
Also, life is a scorecard. You don't have to accomplish anything, in the end, it doesn't fucking matter. Our future is death. Every single one of us. If your concerned about death, or being someone, or accomplishing stuff, then you doing it wrong, very wrong.
Enjoy yourself, because in the end, that is all you have.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the God particle. Have a little faith.
I can't. After years of having to go to church, I discovered that I am not capable of having faith.
I am addicted to opiates, this year I first lost the love of my life to suicide, then my best friend to an OD, then my grandma to a stroke and finally my dad's cancer has come back, this time metastizing. My life is a complete trainwreck right now, but I cannot inflict this kind of pain onto the people who love me and care about me - so yeah, best facebook related news in a long time. If you find yourself holding a gun to your head while already having the syringe with a 100mg dose of Ultiva pressed to your vein standing on a bridge with a rope around your neck like me half a year ago, just wanting to die so bad... Think about the other lives you are about to fuck up and do the only thing even remotely able to help your situation: cry out for help! Talk to somebody! Anyone! I am 25 and don't know how I will ever be able to smile again, but suicide is just the cruelest action you could ever take against the people loving you.
Hell, if you need somebodY to talk and noone else is there, email me at neofaschistoide underscore banane at web dot de
Just don't do it, please! I am still completely ripped apart inside a year after she died :/
Look, this is the internet, no one cares.
Now we've got the blinding light weapon, and the deafening sound weapon, and that Ray Gun that makes your skin feel like it's on fire. All this massive R&D going into novel crowd control technologies. It's almost as if the US Government anticipates needing fancy new riot gear. Wonder why that could be.
exactly.
It says I downloaded Amsterdam Heavy, which oddly enough, I did.
It didn't get though:
The weird world of blowfly
The man on the train
Boy Wonder
Drive
which i downloaded at the same time.
Oh, it calls me a pirate also, totally cool.
Ugh, now I am that parent. I ordered my daughter a Nook Simple Touch ($99 E-Ink reader) for Christmas this year because (1) she really likes to read, (2) reading is the only thing I want her to do on it, and (3) $99 is about my upper limit for a portable electronic device for a kid. But now her friend has an iPad and all the other kids are awestruck by it. I used to have my daughter pretty well brainwashed against i-devices (she would say, "don't call my mp3 player an iPod!) but peer influence is so much stronger than parental as they get older.
Is she hot?
The only thing we know for sure is that the companies that installed this iCarrier spyware definitely abused their power.
If the abuse goes up to the FBI, then there's no way that information is not going to come out. We'll know soon enough where iCarrier came from and where we should aim our ire. The iCarrier story is just getting started.
You know i love you like i do my brothers PopeRatzo, but wtf is iCarrier?
You making shit up again?
This discussion is about Carrier IQ, not whatever you are talking about.
You do realise that manned spacecraft tend to be rigorously tested first? The first moon landing was done by the 11th Apollo craft for a reason, you know.
Do you realize that everyone came within a hairs breadth of dying on the 13th Apollo mission? Oh yeah, everyone DID die on the space shuttle challenger AND Columbia. Also, don't forget the entire Apollo 1 crew died in a fire on the ground. Sure it's tested, but that doesn't mean it's safe.
There are too many people on Slashdot that disagree just to be contrary
Point? Airplanes are tested, and yet they crash. Cars are tested and yet they crash. And yes, they kill people also.
Lots of close calls also.
Maybe I'm just being contrary...
If he wasn't so greedy, he probably could of gotten away with it.
A little here, a little there.
At least he got his woman some cosmetic surgery, she's probably going to need to find a new man.
This is capitalism/corporations. It's all about profit, and spending extra on IT cuts into the bottom line.
Economy is bad, so companies make cuts. Personnel, IT, Security, and everything but the CEO's bonuses get cut.
...
Don't expect iPad or Xoom quality at a low price point.
Seriously?
My doctor switched me to Lipitor so i could get the generic version for cheaper.
Currently, i have to pay $3.00 for name brand meds, and $1 for generic, but that is like tripling in feb 2012. Damn Medicare, or whatever it is. (no, i don't really pay attention.)
I was taking Crestor before.
It's 0666
So, instead of having a train slow down and stop, we are going to have a bunch of moving platforms that does the starting and stopping instead. hmm, wonder how much that will cost? Not to mention you just a bunch of points of failure, instead of just the train.
Also, how long does these "platforms" travel. Your talking probably a few miles at least the platforms have to move, even more the faster trains go.
So, really, wtf?
The thermal-imaging camera captures variations in facial temperature in response to questioning. "When someone is making something up on the spot, brain activity usually changes and you can detect this through the thermal camera," said professor Hassan Ugail, who leads the research.
Dang, i guess the "bad" people will have to just work out stories ahead of time, so they always have an answer ready.
... then nothing gets done.
The DEA could easily tell whomever gives the licenses to approve this guy, but they choose not to. Instead, they want to blame it on criminals, instead of where the blame really lies, which is the bullshit anti-drug laws that we have too many of.
We could legalize meth, have the government or some pharmacy make it safely, and then every loser that wants to do it won't be supporting the people who make it.
The problem here is not meth addicts, it's the bullshit they go thru to make the meth, which hurts consumers more. You won't have druggies stealing the crap the makes meth, you won't have places become toxic because people are making meth in their bathtub/kitchen.
America, the land of the hypocrites and home of the illusion of freedom.
This is what I hate about Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Google Music, and every other digital music vendor - limited selection. I can get show X or album Y on service 1, but not on service 2.
I want every CD, every DVD, and every TV show available to me digitally. That's what we all want. It's not like they aren't already sitting in some digital format somewhere.
I've long thought that digital media should be like the Internet, with individual Music Service Providers competing based on their interface, features, etc., and not on their catalog. In other words, all content available through everyone and that's not why you choose one over the other.
iTunes, Google Music, Netflix, etc. are simply recreations of the record company distribution monopoly. At least with record companies, there was one LP, 8-track, cassette, and CD standard. Today you can own a piece of media and not be able to play it on all your devices.
Weird, thepiratebay.org and other sites, don't have the problem. If it can be digitized, you can download it.
This is why I don't pay for stuff, because they don't need money and they sure as fuck don't understand the market. So screw them. Because they will screw you over, if it makes them even the slightest profit.
Apparently if I worked (that god i don't) i'd have to get a robot to do my crap, because I'm a bit bad with social cues, I'd wear dark sunglasses to a meeting (because i'm probably going to sleep during it), and fuck ya i'm obnoxious.
But seriously, wtf? Is it about patenting things you want to do, or about patenting every possible action under the sun so you can charge people to do, well, everything?
Wired says it will be less than $200:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/android-cotton-candy-fxi/
I think I'll stick with the $25 Pi, thanks.
What's the difference?
Why is this modded funny?
Unless it's funny that most people think there isn't a difference between 50x faster and 50 percent faster.
I don't find that funny, i actually find that scarey.
Of course, maybe there's some internet MEME i'm missing here...
I'm 43 and I game at least 8 hours a day.
Of course, it's mostly EQ2, but hey, it's gaming, right? Not like i play farmville or something.
I get in my FPS's and my car racing games also.
In fact, i plan to spend rest of my life playing video games. Granted i'm shooting for a death in my 60's (getting older would really suck), but i got a good 20 years of some hardcore gaming left to do.
I was blessed with a big forehead and a big head (physically), so my brain has room to grow, unless it's already big. Guess I'll donate my head to Video Game Science when I die.
Very simple. Do NOT have secrets. If everything is open, then no one can surprise you buy selling secrets.
I'm going to get very hippy here, but how about we trying being nice to people in other countries, instead of telling them what to do, what to buy, and what corporations to let fuck you in the ass.
How about we go in and build up infrastructures, ie water, electricy, housing, instead of killing people?
Being dicks, only makes everyone not like you.
How about we share, instead of hoarding, and give away instead of charging everyone for everything?
ROFL, like that will happen.
oh, ya, and people selling secrets, that won't stop ever either, not if you keep on being the same dicks, i mean, treating everyone like they are lucky to have us.
As an educated (BS in SE), 25 year old male who has attempted suicide twice (and failed by chance/luck/bad luck), in general we do send out cries for help. They get dismissed or go unnoticed. They aren't "I'm going to kill myself tonight. Don't try to stop me." but more like "I don't really care" or "I just cause problems" along with a passive shrug cause you don't want to make the other person feel bad too.
Personally if someone had noticed my attempts, I think I would've been better off. The ones that are vocal about it get help, the ones that are discovered before death get help, but the ones that are barely strong enough to keep from going all the way just linger on in quiet misery without being able to get help or end it.
My respect to the guy. Humans die easily, but it takes a lot to kill yourself. He was stronger than me.
Humans do die easy, and life is dirt cheap on this planet.
but killing yourself because life gets rough? Seriously?
I take depression meds, but I am not suicidal. Because I understand shit happens. most the time it's other people it happens to, on occasion, it's me who gets shit on. And it's how i react to that shit that makes me a person. I don't take the "easy way out", I deal with it.
You think it wouldn't be easier to just give up, and die? Ya, it would. But fuck that, i'm not some wimp. I am not afraid of death, in fact, i'm looking forward to death and seeing what happens, but it will happen in time, no use rushing it.
What i've found, for every shitty situation that life has for me, that once you get thru it, you've grown. I've been a herion addict. I've spent countless times getting "clean" in jail, i've spent too many times being homeless. And if i had given up, I wouldn't today have a nice apartment with a view, for really cheap (low income housing), I wouldn't have internet, or my EQ2 game to play. I wouldn't of beat my addiction, and i sure as hell would of never gotten to finish the Wheel of Time series. And i sure as hell would of never met the sister I have (half sister, from mom, put up for adoption before i was born).
So, sorry. If I can stay alive for the crappy parts, everyone one can also.
Maybe put him in the care of people who aren't suffering from depression?
Um, I suffer from depression and I am not suicidal at all. You do understand that while depression and suicide is linked, it's not a "every depressed person is suicidal" thing.
Very true words... health is one of those things that gets stolen away from you almost literally overnight and from there it's a major struggle to get back to normality. Most of us as kids would screw up our faces when our parents would say "You've got your health" when we moaned about not having anything - sadly, as with so many things, you don't realise how true that is until you're older.
The trouble is, you trip up with something, that later causes something else...and so on... you find yourself snowballing down into the pit of death .
Yes, that is called life. It happens to all of us.
So enjoy what you have while you have it.
To all young, horny, self-absorbed, invincible little gods of the internet: you're never too young. The cosmos cares not for you.
Value your health. Value your safety.
Accomplish something while you still can, just as Ilya did.
No, life can be short, have fun while you can, because tomorrow you might be dead, crippled, in jail, or be accused of being a terrorist/hacker/pirate.
My best friend died recently, boom! Was in fine health, didn't have any problems, but found dead at his computer. All it does is reinforce the fact that shit happens, to anyone.
Should I live scared like I am going to die? Fuck no. But i am going to make sure i do all the fun stuff I want to.
Live life, have fun, enjoy it.
Also, life is a scorecard. You don't have to accomplish anything, in the end, it doesn't fucking matter. Our future is death. Every single one of us. If your concerned about death, or being someone, or accomplishing stuff, then you doing it wrong, very wrong.
Enjoy yourself, because in the end, that is all you have.