Given the average North American diet, that doesn't sound like a good thing.;-)
that's okay, this is slashdot, most of us aren't getting laid, so we don't have to worry about our cheetos/cherry coke sperm hitting anything but the keyboard...
My phone has an option to unlock on face and voice. What can anybody's customs personnel do if they take a phone, but need the owner's face to unlock it?
Flip side -- my phone says this option provides weaker security than a password. Why is this weak?
Snowden must still have some shit on the USA that has them and their allies really fucking scared. Stuff he hasn't released yet if they are still acting like this.
I can't wait to see what is going to get released still.
So it takes 20 years to finally get a Great OS on my modern computer, though it runs on top of a crappy OS (Windows. Yes, i know a lot of peeps run Linux, but I'm referring to Windows, because Linus isn't really a crappy OS).
Sweet!
All joking aside, I've always thought the AmigaOS should of went to a linux kernel and brought the sweetness of the Amiga OS as a GUI.
But more seriously, that disaffection that MMO players seem to exhibit in spades is one of the characteristics of al qeada era terrorists. Being middle class, disillusioned, Muslim, male, single, and approaching middle age is the basic profile of an ideal recruit to them.
You forgot overweight basement dwellers in there...
Only becasue you haven't lived anyplace with regular sunny weather. You have no contrast.Sure it's better weather then the nothing else you have tried.
You have tricked yourself into thinking you love the weather, just like a slave can trick themselves its not all bad becasue they have no reference.
Seriously, what? Is this how you feel about your wife/husband? You got nothing better, so you tricked yourself into loving them, because you have nothing to compare to?
What the fuck sort of argument are you presenting here? I only like something because it's all I know? That I could not have traveled at all to other places and experienced their weather? That I am so wishy-washy that what I like changes on where I am at?
I am not you. So if your argument works on you, I'm sorry that you are that weak minded. Me, I know what I like and I know what I accept because that is the way things are, and I don't confuse the two. You might want to see a marriage counselor though.
How is this relevant on/.? I mean no disrespect, but this is a topic for more mainstream news sources, not a site dedicated to technology.
Let's get back to Geekdom, shall we?
Well, considering this is the only news site I go to, I'm glad for these occasional posts of "mainstream" news. I know you said no disrespect, but if you really didn't want to disrespect the passing of Mandela, you should of just not posted.
You don't see a difference because you aren't being objective.
A protest is people communicating some kind of a message in a public place. Sometimes it is inconvenient when they block streets, etc. A DDoS on the other hand is like guys in ski masks showing up at your shop, kicking in the doors, running off your customers and not allowing you to do business for as long as they are there.
No it's not. And you know it's not, which is why you are posting as an AC.
If you really believe this, log in and let your opinion count.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak, a DDoS on the other hand is like the gestapo coming in and taking you away because you said something they didn't like. If there was no recourse for it, then how the fuck is the internet supposed to last long term? And worse is that it won't be just the people you like doing it against the people you don't like. Imagine the RIAA/MPAA DDoSing every website that had a picture of Johnny Depp in a pirate suit. If you think anonymous DDoS'es are effective, wait until somebody with actual resources does it. Right now it doesn't happen because people with actual resources other than two-bit botnets are quite visible and have to obey the law, much as I think everybody else should. And on that same token anonymous should never be above the law.
Wow, I thought you were ranting on about how the Government can shut your website down without any notice, or how the MPAA/RIAA can get their politicians to bring down whole businesses (MegaUpload). But instead you are talking about how some script kiddies disabled service to a website for a few hours.
In case you don't see the irony here, the DDOS are a form of protest, because much like people camping in front of your store, it disrupts business. When they stop, the business goes on. Say that to the websites and business the Government takes down for the MPAA&RIAA.
...Sounds like it was a hippie protest to me, and I hate hippies. But if we throw them in jail for bitching now, what's going to happen to all us non-hippies when we decide to bitch?
My mother was a drunkard and crazy. I was 12 and had to feed her and my two brothers. Yeah, I stole. Robbed bread trucks, soda trucks, I would go into busy pizza places and just grab a pie off the counter and walk out. It was always a last resort, it was always about basic survival. And if I had to do it again, I would.
You clearly had other avenues to get food and shelter.
You know if you sold one of your brothers you would of made enough money to live off for awhile, till you sold the remaining brother.
Wait, what? I have lived in Seattle my whole life and I LOVE the weather here. I know it's hard to comprehend in your small mind, but some people in this world actually like rain. Grey, overcast weather does not bother me. Sunny, hot days do bother me. I fucking love Seattle weather. It's never too hot, it's never too cold. Rarely snows in the downtown Seattle area, gets lots of rain (which cleans the city). Beautiful out year around. Weed is legal.
Seriously, I am in heaven living in Seattle. I understand it's not for everyone, but understand how you like to live, isn't how everyone else likes to live.
You seriously like the weather up here? Have you been here anytime other than July - September?
I know a LOT of people that moved here after visiting in the summer... they don't realize what the weather is like most of the time.
I lived here my whole life (40+ years), the weather is great, year around. Don't like rain? You do when you realize it cleans up the smell of homeless peoples urine from the alleys downtown. Ya, spend time during the nice non rainy days and you'll wish it was raining every day.
Quoting from the MPAA message now on hotfile.com: "If you are looking for your favorite movies or TV shows online, there are more ways than ever today to get high quality access to them on legal platforms."
How about a list of those numerous platforms? How about a link to an MPAA sponsored page of links to these various legal platforms?
Yes, they are out there, but why the hell wouldn't they promote them?
Because they know people will go back to thepiratebay to get their stuff. Or one of the other many file lockers. MPAA only has a PR victory here.
Public school doesn't mean it's a public building for anyone to use. It's means it's a free, government ran school that anyone in the correct age or knowledge bracket can attend for education.
In fact, it's very much a NON public zone, you have to have a reason to be in the school. They can, and often do, call the police on people who do not belong there.
Well, the water fountain was designed and installed for free water. And there are outlets in public places for free electricity to top off one’s phone. But I don’t think that was the case here. I see this as more akin to your next door neighbor running an extension line over to your home to borrow a little electricity – and failing to tell you. It might be for only a small amount but it is not good behavior. I think that a stern warning might have been better unless it was a chronic problem.
Schools aren't public buildings. Meaning the general public is NOT allowed to go wandering and using school facilities. So actually, no, you shouldn't be going into a school that you do not attend, that your kids don't attend and that you have no business being at, just to use a water fountain, electricity, or even the bathroom.
Granted, if you are caught in a school, using the bathroom or water fountain, at worse you get trespassing charged, not theft.
I just wonder what the school is teaching the kids here, that theft is theft, no matter what (pro copyright), or that sharing is wrong (pro copyright)?
This is something that I truly worry about it. We are constantly bombarded with new outrages and many people are like "meh, it sucks. but what you gunna do?"
What is the motivation to hide behind a pseudonym as the creator of Bitcoin?
I can think of a few things. Reporters bothering you, other idiots bothering you. Become a target for people to steal your bitcoins. Government might become more interested in you (NSA). And worse, relatives asking for money because they think you are rich.
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I am my mother?
nope, you are a pussy.
(really just kidding, but you set that up.)
Given the average North American diet, that doesn't sound like a good thing. ;-)
that's okay, this is slashdot, most of us aren't getting laid, so we don't have to worry about our cheetos/cherry coke sperm hitting anything but the keyboard...
My phone has an option to unlock on face and voice. What can anybody's customs personnel do if they take a phone, but need the owner's face to unlock it?
Flip side -- my phone says this option provides weaker security than a password. Why is this weak?
I don't know, hold the phone up to your face?
You didn't think that over too well.
Snowden must still have some shit on the USA that has them and their allies really fucking scared. Stuff he hasn't released yet if they are still acting like this.
I can't wait to see what is going to get released still.
Seeing how this happened in New Zealand, probably thousands of miles across the sea?
Tell Megaupload that Obama can't touch them. Oh wait, it already happened...
So it takes 20 years to finally get a Great OS on my modern computer, though it runs on top of a crappy OS (Windows. Yes, i know a lot of peeps run Linux, but I'm referring to Windows, because Linus isn't really a crappy OS).
Sweet!
All joking aside, I've always thought the AmigaOS should of went to a linux kernel and brought the sweetness of the Amiga OS as a GUI.
Sorry if it annoys you that I still enjoy Zelda, but I'm not sure what you expect me to do about it.
Well, he said to move on, so I took that to mean to move on to Zelda II.
But more seriously, that disaffection that MMO players seem to exhibit in spades is one of the characteristics of al qeada era terrorists. Being middle class, disillusioned, Muslim, male, single, and approaching middle age is the basic profile of an ideal recruit to them.
You forgot overweight basement dwellers in there...
Beware of Donkey Man! I have no idea what power he possesses, but he's still way cooler than Puma Man!
He has the Donkey Punch of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_punch
For those who don't get the joke.
Only becasue you haven't lived anyplace with regular sunny weather.
You have no contrast.Sure it's better weather then the nothing else you have tried.
You have tricked yourself into thinking you love the weather, just like a slave can trick themselves its not all bad becasue they have no reference.
Seriously, what? Is this how you feel about your wife/husband? You got nothing better, so you tricked yourself into loving them, because you have nothing to compare to?
What the fuck sort of argument are you presenting here? I only like something because it's all I know? That I could not have traveled at all to other places and experienced their weather? That I am so wishy-washy that what I like changes on where I am at?
I am not you. So if your argument works on you, I'm sorry that you are that weak minded. Me, I know what I like and I know what I accept because that is the way things are, and I don't confuse the two. You might want to see a marriage counselor though.
How is this relevant on /.? I mean no disrespect, but this is a topic for more mainstream news sources, not a site dedicated to technology.
Let's get back to Geekdom, shall we?
Well, considering this is the only news site I go to, I'm glad for these occasional posts of "mainstream" news. I know you said no disrespect, but if you really didn't want to disrespect the passing of Mandela, you should of just not posted.
Geek or not, Nelson Mandela was a cool dude.
You don't see a difference because you aren't being objective.
A protest is people communicating some kind of a message in a public place. Sometimes it is inconvenient when they block streets, etc. A DDoS on the other hand is like guys in ski masks showing up at your shop, kicking in the doors, running off your customers and not allowing you to do business for as long as they are there.
No it's not. And you know it's not, which is why you are posting as an AC.
If you really believe this, log in and let your opinion count.
Yes, it would just be awesome to live in a world where websites could disappear without notice because some activist didn't like something they said.
I really don't get this mentality on slashdot that DDoS is civil disobedience. It isn't. It's censorship. A sit in allows the speaker to still be able to speak, a DDoS on the other hand is like the gestapo coming in and taking you away because you said something they didn't like. If there was no recourse for it, then how the fuck is the internet supposed to last long term? And worse is that it won't be just the people you like doing it against the people you don't like. Imagine the RIAA/MPAA DDoSing every website that had a picture of Johnny Depp in a pirate suit. If you think anonymous DDoS'es are effective, wait until somebody with actual resources does it. Right now it doesn't happen because people with actual resources other than two-bit botnets are quite visible and have to obey the law, much as I think everybody else should. And on that same token anonymous should never be above the law.
Wow, I thought you were ranting on about how the Government can shut your website down without any notice, or how the MPAA/RIAA can get their politicians to bring down whole businesses (MegaUpload). But instead you are talking about how some script kiddies disabled service to a website for a few hours.
In case you don't see the irony here, the DDOS are a form of protest, because much like people camping in front of your store, it disrupts business. When they stop, the business goes on. Say that to the websites and business the Government takes down for the MPAA&RIAA.
...Sounds like it was a hippie protest to me, and I hate hippies. But if we throw them in jail for bitching now, what's going to happen to all us non-hippies when we decide to bitch?
You'll be called a hippy also
Yeah, you see, but you're being rational about it. Others seem ready to be driven by unabated hate.
He/She might still have a concussion...
My mother was a drunkard and crazy. I was 12 and had to feed her and my two brothers.
Yeah, I stole. Robbed bread trucks, soda trucks, I would go into busy pizza places and just grab a pie off the counter and walk out.
It was always a last resort, it was always about basic survival.
And if I had to do it again, I would.
You clearly had other avenues to get food and shelter.
You know if you sold one of your brothers you would of made enough money to live off for awhile, till you sold the remaining brother.
The karma in this case seems rather disproportional. Yeah, what they did was horrible, but death, esp such an ugly death, seems a bit out of balance.
Welcome to life, whom doesn't care if it slaps you with a shitty death.
Beware of Donkey Man! I have no idea what power he possesses, but he's still way cooler than Puma Man!
He has the Donkey Punch of course.
I liked the weather
Ok, first off i know your lying.
Wait, what? I have lived in Seattle my whole life and I LOVE the weather here. I know it's hard to comprehend in your small mind, but some people in this world actually like rain. Grey, overcast weather does not bother me. Sunny, hot days do bother me. I fucking love Seattle weather. It's never too hot, it's never too cold. Rarely snows in the downtown Seattle area, gets lots of rain (which cleans the city). Beautiful out year around. Weed is legal.
Seriously, I am in heaven living in Seattle. I understand it's not for everyone, but understand how you like to live, isn't how everyone else likes to live.
You seriously like the weather up here? Have you been here anytime other than July - September?
I know a LOT of people that moved here after visiting in the summer... they don't realize what the weather is like most of the time.
I lived here my whole life (40+ years), the weather is great, year around. Don't like rain? You do when you realize it cleans up the smell of homeless peoples urine from the alleys downtown. Ya, spend time during the nice non rainy days and you'll wish it was raining every day.
Plus weed is legal here.
Quoting from the MPAA message now on hotfile.com:
"If you are looking for your favorite movies or TV shows online, there are more ways than ever today to get high quality access to them on legal platforms."
How about a list of those numerous platforms? How about a link to an MPAA sponsored page of links to these various legal platforms?
Yes, they are out there, but why the hell wouldn't they promote them?
Because they know people will go back to thepiratebay to get their stuff. Or one of the other many file lockers. MPAA only has a PR victory here.
But you are not a public school.
Public school doesn't mean it's a public building for anyone to use. It's means it's a free, government ran school that anyone in the correct age or knowledge bracket can attend for education.
In fact, it's very much a NON public zone, you have to have a reason to be in the school. They can, and often do, call the police on people who do not belong there.
Well, the water fountain was designed and installed for free water. And there are outlets in public places for free electricity to top off one’s phone. But I don’t think that was the case here. I see this as more akin to your next door neighbor running an extension line over to your home to borrow a little electricity – and failing to tell you. It might be for only a small amount but it is not good behavior. I think that a stern warning might have been better unless it was a chronic problem.
Schools aren't public buildings. Meaning the general public is NOT allowed to go wandering and using school facilities. So actually, no, you shouldn't be going into a school that you do not attend, that your kids don't attend and that you have no business being at, just to use a water fountain, electricity, or even the bathroom.
Granted, if you are caught in a school, using the bathroom or water fountain, at worse you get trespassing charged, not theft.
I just wonder what the school is teaching the kids here, that theft is theft, no matter what (pro copyright), or that sharing is wrong (pro copyright)?
Either way, the kids lose out.
This is something that I truly worry about it. We are constantly bombarded with new outrages and many people are like "meh, it sucks. but what you gunna do?"
Is there an antidote?
It's called a revolution.
What is the motivation to hide behind a pseudonym as the creator of Bitcoin?
I can think of a few things. Reporters bothering you, other idiots bothering you. Become a target for people to steal your bitcoins. Government might become more interested in you (NSA). And worse, relatives asking for money because they think you are rich.
Ya, I think I'd stay anonymous also.