Yet we pump billions into the defense against terrorism, but we keep bickering on whether or not Global Warming may or may not happen. Anyone able to explain the sense in that?
Easy. Terrorist is a real threat, proven time and time again. Global warming is a theory that some scientist have. Could be happening, or maybe not.
Politicians are using fear from terrorism to drive their campaigns & agenda's. Easier to sell that sort of fear to get people to do what you want, then the fear of something that might happen and effect people hundreds/thousands of years in the future.
I have a hard time believing that someone convinced them this site was worthwhile.
That's because you're letting your ego get in the way. This isn't about you. This is about one or more specific targets that they believed or suspected were slashdot users.
They were after me. Unfortunately for them I run with an adblocker & I'm in good standing with slashdot that I can turn my ads off.
" One provision of the bill would earmark a classified sum of money... to help fund efforts by intelligence agencies to install new software designed to spot and track attempts to access or download secret materials without proper authorization.'"
Ok, so they will spy on those who spy on Internet users. But who will spy on them, in turn?
I live in Seattle. I pay $90 for 20mbps. Just for internet, not TV, no Phone. They suck, I am looking forward to Gigabit and the $40 I will pay for 500mbps.
So whats the solution? Make it illegal to state a political opinion? Make it illegal to pay someone to state theirs? Make it illegal to say political opinions on the air?
Make all Lobbying illegal. Set up a general fund, with a cap, that each politician is only allowed so much money, the same amount for each, to run their compaign on. Make accepting any other money illegal. This give all politician's even footing and makes it about the issues, not how much money they can thrown into their campaign, or how many anti-another politician commericals they can put on TV.
Make public debates mandatory, so people can learn what their candidates are about.
And that is off the top of my head. I can think of many other ways to make elections fair for all, and not just for the rich.
And here is how King & Goffin are typical music industry assholes, taken from the wiki:
Another bit of the conventional lore is that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion." However, although she never owned the rights to her recordings, it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary during the years she was making records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). In 1971, she moved to South Carolina and lived in obscurity on menial jobs and welfare, until being rediscovered in 1987.[3] She died of cervical cancer in 2003.
Now the problem is that non everyone shares the same values, or even definitions of what a word means.
Let's say you have an 'honest' company by your given view. Now let's say we talk with someone else and get their idea of an 'honest' company. Chances are you will have slightly different views about what 'honest' means. Now, let's extend this to hundreds or thousands of different people and see what happens to the definition of honest.
Many of those people would probably agree that someone that breaks their word is dishonest. You don't even need to bring up politics, just describe that someone (Snowden) broke their vow to protect secrets. It would be a very safe bet that most people would describe Snowden as dishonest if they only knew about his behavior and not his name.
What I'm trying to illustrate is that your concept of having nothing to hide (just curious if you believe in privacy) is that it can't withstand your own proposal of owning a company. Perhaps you hired a communist that thinks any profit is inherently dishonest? Perhaps you hired someone that thinks janitors deserve to be paid as much as PhD's as they do honest hard labor and PhD's sit around all day. Perhaps you hire someone that thinks all information should be free, despite the fact that your company spent years of time and millions on dollars on R&D costs?
The concept that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear simply cannot survive in the real world.
And yet this is how the USA Government is acting towards it's own people, if we have nothing to fear, then we have nothing to hide. And yes, the US Government is showing how they have something to fear, because they've been hiding something from the world, that the world isn't going to like.
Except that all the really good music was written by the bands. Queen wrote their own shit. ZZ Top. Aerosmith. Scorpions (I don't like Scorpions personally, but yeah... okay, they're good). Sonata Arctica. Iron Maiden. Johann Sebastian Bach. Greenday. Lard.
You do realize you are comparing rock/metal groups ('cept for Greenday) with pop music, right?
Pretty much all good music is rock/metal, thats why he used those examples.
Very few pop artists actually write their own music, even fewer can sing. All of the very, very rare exceptions I can think of are Latin and I think this is derived from the fact they had to start out as street performers (pretty much like rock bands doing backyard gigs).
Nine people wrote Baby for Justin Beiber, it took 17 for "imma be" for the black eyed peas, How many did it take for Bohemian Rhapsody? Just one (Freddy Mercury). Which one do you think we'll still listen to in another 20 years. Yes I know that Bohemian rhapsody is nearly 40 years old, this is my point, how many people under 25 know who sung "the loco-motion" without googling it? and that was hardly an obscure song/artist. Pop music is mass produced and expires quickly.
funny you should mention loco-motion, seeing as the song was written by 2 people, and not by the original singer. If you bothered to do a little checking, Little Eva, who sung the song first, was the babysitter for Carol King, who along with Gerry Goffin (King's husband). So this song you are using as an example, wasn't writing by the singer, but was written for the singer.
Nice example.
Look, Pop music is different then Rock music. Always has been. Pop music is made to please the most people possible, thus why it's called "Popular" music. The most money is to be made via pop music, so it's no surprise that the various Record mafiaa's dedicated research to formulas & lots of people writing tunes for singers/dancers. Probably will not change.
Rock music while mainstream, isn't the same sort of music as popular, doesn't usually have the same fans, and it does get the same sort of formula/lots of people writing shit for it. But unlike popular music, rock fans don't usually go for the canned rock music that labels try to pass, they prefer a better class of music.
But all this said, taste is subjective. While I don't care for Pop music of today, I don't mind some of it from the 80's. Granted I like my rock old though (50+) and my metal hard. (Metallica sold out when they cut their hair, just sayin.) But that isn't all I like. I generally like good music. And I find good music comes in all types, even country western. (and I can not stand country or western, or any combination within, but Patsy Cline fucking rocks.)
Except that all the really good music was written by the bands. Queen wrote their own shit. ZZ Top. Aerosmith. Scorpions (I don't like Scorpions personally, but yeah... okay, they're good). Sonata Arctica. Iron Maiden. Johann Sebastian Bach. Greenday. Lard.
So I was excited to buy a PS4 until they announced no media server support. Same with XBone. I guess I'm just one of those guys who will stay with his PS3 for the forseeable future...
I know why they made that choice, but it doesn't service the customers who put their media library on a server instead of on disc.
Well, let's see how the hackers are this generation with getting the machines to run other code then official...
I'm surprised he was hired in the first place. He might be talented and an asset to any organization but he's also proven himself to be a liability. He will likely never be hired anywhere anybody has something to hide ever again.
And yet he was given a job.
You know the saying, if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide? Well, that applies to jobs he works at. If they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear.
If the NSA had nothing to hide, why do they fear what Snowden leaked? Remember, they first said he didn't have access to anything and didn't have anything important. Are they still saying that? No, they went to tell the other countries that will force economic sanctions on any country helping him. Which is a lie, because they haven't done shit to Russia.
If i was a honest company, Snowden is the sort of person I'd probably like working there.
you want to be a morally just person? Remember one rule: treat every other person the way you want to be treated.
That logic can be used to argue both sides of almost anything, from making kids eat their veggies to invading Iraq (if you convince yourself you'll be greeted as a liberator).
Ya, and you can use math to make it seem like anything is possible. What is your point?
Snowden is bad. He's the definition of traitor. If you support him, you're just an ignorant tool.
He didn't release documents describing the NSA spying on its own people. He's a traitor who released any and all documents he could get his hands on, just like Bradley Manning. The newspapers and reporters are the ones who zeroed in on the NSA spying on its own citizens and made sure you heard about it first. They actually looked for BAD things that were going on, and didn't just throw everything out there.
If Snowden only released documents about spying on Americans, then you'd have something to work with, but he did no such thing. He dumped it all, including operations information that is most certainly well within the NSAs purview. Spying on Merkel? Guess what, ITS THEIR JOB TO DO SO.
He's not a whistle blower, he's an attention whore. The reporters that went through these documents and found the information about spying on American citizens are doing the right thing. Dumping info about the NSA spying on other countries... thats treason. If you didn't know the NSA was spying on other countries, your a moron, its their job to do just that. He never should have published ANY of that sort of shit.
Being a whistleblower is different than stealing a bunch of documents, regardless of what they say and publishing them for all to see.
Sorry you're such a fanboy of his, but he's a douche bag traitor. Deal with it.
How is that NSA job working for you? Good benefits? Kids don't respect you anymore? Your wife left you? Your dog ran away? Ya, that's what I thought.
"Snowden did transition from a whistle blower to a spy though"
No. He did not.
He was a whistleblower and remains a whistleblower.
He did. Initially the U.S. media were supportive of him as a whistleblower. Their owners and editors then had their briefing, and suddenly actions that were pro-american whistleblowing were anti-american spying.
So yes, he didn't change, but the media's portrayal of him did, and that's what's important.
Yes, the U.S. media, now there is a group that sticks up for the rights of the people over the government & corporations. And yes, I am being really fucking sarcastic when I say that. Who the fuck do you think the U.S. Media works for, and why the fuck do you think Snowden ignored them and went to the Guardian?
If the map says Taiwan (ROC) is a nation, that will offend mainland China (PRC). If the map says Taiwan is a province of PRC, that offends Taiwan.
Really, they're screwed either way.
At $work, we are mandated to call ROC a "region". That's as accurate as we can go without offending anyone.
Ya, too bad computers aren't able to be programmed to show a different thing based on the location, or maybe the language would clue it. But I guess that is too complicated for today's computers...
Anyone else wondering why the sourcecode was even able to be accessed? Seems like a stupid thing to have on a web server, or able to access from a web server.
That's like leaving a laptop sitting on a seat in car while you are out shopping/whatever.
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Yet we pump billions into the defense against terrorism, but we keep bickering on whether or not Global Warming may or may not happen. Anyone able to explain the sense in that?
Easy. Terrorist is a real threat, proven time and time again. Global warming is a theory that some scientist have. Could be happening, or maybe not.
Politicians are using fear from terrorism to drive their campaigns & agenda's. Easier to sell that sort of fear to get people to do what you want, then the fear of something that might happen and effect people hundreds/thousands of years in the future.
>> hard drives actually have a surprisingly low failure rate.
You call a 20% failure rate in 3 years LOW? My career rate is closer to 5% over 5 years - who keeps buying all those crappy hard drives?
Apparently me, I've had 6 harddrives die just over a year of getting them over the last few years. And that is out of 8 drives total.
On the other hand, i have 20 years old SCSI drives that still run. 40mb drives, woot! =)
I have a hard time believing that someone convinced them this site was worthwhile.
That's because you're letting your ego get in the way. This isn't about you. This is about one or more specific targets that they believed or suspected were slashdot users.
They were after me. Unfortunately for them I run with an adblocker & I'm in good standing with slashdot that I can turn my ads off.
Stupid Brits.
" One provision of the bill would earmark a classified sum of money ... to help fund efforts by intelligence agencies to install new software designed to spot and track attempts to access or download secret materials without proper authorization.'"
Ok, so they will spy on those who spy on Internet users. But who will spy on them, in turn?
Google.
... they mean it's something new scientists haven't seen before, and haven't figured out yet.
Kinda like the same way you meet someone you don't know, you are dumbfounded by them.
Mainly if they are female...
Are you fucking retarded?
I've been around on here longer than idiots like you have been accusing anyone who promotes one product over another as being a shill.
Microsoft made a lot of shitty claims, but they REVERSED them.
Sony continually fucked consumers over. Microsoft did too, just not as much.
You being here long doesn't change that you can be shilling for MS.
For the record, both MS and Sony suck dog shit, based on this pass records. I don't trust either of them.
Odd - Windows, in it's various incarnations, has cost me much much MUCH more than Linux ever cost me, in terms of time, frustration, and aggravation.
Then you haven't tried gaming on Linux.
Manifesto... thats the primary keyword for COMPLETE NUTJOB.
And there went his credibility... Just when he was starting to do some good.
Are you calling the founding fathers of the US nut jobs? They wrote a manifesto called the Declaration of Independence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
They were also terrorists and traitors.
And they won, so they got to write the history books saying they were heroes and liberators.
I live in Seattle. I pay $90 for 20mbps. Just for internet, not TV, no Phone. They suck, I am looking forward to Gigabit and the $40 I will pay for 500mbps.
Yes, I will be voting this election.
So whats the solution? Make it illegal to state a political opinion? Make it illegal to pay someone to state theirs? Make it illegal to say political opinions on the air?
Make all Lobbying illegal. Set up a general fund, with a cap, that each politician is only allowed so much money, the same amount for each, to run their compaign on. Make accepting any other money illegal. This give all politician's even footing and makes it about the issues, not how much money they can thrown into their campaign, or how many anti-another politician commericals they can put on TV.
Make public debates mandatory, so people can learn what their candidates are about.
And that is off the top of my head. I can think of many other ways to make elections fair for all, and not just for the rich.
And here is how King & Goffin are typical music industry assholes, taken from the wiki:
Another bit of the conventional lore is that she had received only $50 for "The Loco-Motion." However, although she never owned the rights to her recordings, it seems $50 was actually her weekly salary during the years she was making records (an increase of $15 from what Goffin and King had been paying her as nanny). In 1971, she moved to South Carolina and lived in obscurity on menial jobs and welfare, until being rediscovered in 1987.[3] She died of cervical cancer in 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loco-Motion
Like I said, great argument to support your side.
Because Snowden is delusional and has no fucking clue?
How's that worked out for Manning? Snowden made the correct decision.
Now the problem is that non everyone shares the same values, or even definitions of what a word means.
Let's say you have an 'honest' company by your given view. Now let's say we talk with someone else and get their idea of an 'honest' company. Chances are you will have slightly different views about what 'honest' means. Now, let's extend this to hundreds or thousands of different people and see what happens to the definition of honest.
Many of those people would probably agree that someone that breaks their word is dishonest. You don't even need to bring up politics, just describe that someone (Snowden) broke their vow to protect secrets. It would be a very safe bet that most people would describe Snowden as dishonest if they only knew about his behavior and not his name.
What I'm trying to illustrate is that your concept of having nothing to hide (just curious if you believe in privacy) is that it can't withstand your own proposal of owning a company. Perhaps you hired a communist that thinks any profit is inherently dishonest? Perhaps you hired someone that thinks janitors deserve to be paid as much as PhD's as they do honest hard labor and PhD's sit around all day. Perhaps you hire someone that thinks all information should be free, despite the fact that your company spent years of time and millions on dollars on R&D costs?
The concept that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear simply cannot survive in the real world.
And yet this is how the USA Government is acting towards it's own people, if we have nothing to fear, then we have nothing to hide. And yes, the US Government is showing how they have something to fear, because they've been hiding something from the world, that the world isn't going to like.
Except that all the really good music was written by the bands. Queen wrote their own shit. ZZ Top. Aerosmith. Scorpions (I don't like Scorpions personally, but yeah... okay, they're good). Sonata Arctica. Iron Maiden. Johann Sebastian Bach. Greenday. Lard.
Compare that to, uh. Bieber. Or Beyonce.
You do realize you are comparing rock/metal groups ('cept for Greenday) with pop music, right?
Pretty much all good music is rock/metal, thats why he used those examples.
Very few pop artists actually write their own music, even fewer can sing. All of the very, very rare exceptions I can think of are Latin and I think this is derived from the fact they had to start out as street performers (pretty much like rock bands doing backyard gigs).
Nine people wrote Baby for Justin Beiber, it took 17 for "imma be" for the black eyed peas, How many did it take for Bohemian Rhapsody? Just one (Freddy Mercury). Which one do you think we'll still listen to in another 20 years. Yes I know that Bohemian rhapsody is nearly 40 years old, this is my point, how many people under 25 know who sung "the loco-motion" without googling it? and that was hardly an obscure song/artist. Pop music is mass produced and expires quickly.
funny you should mention loco-motion, seeing as the song was written by 2 people, and not by the original singer. If you bothered to do a little checking, Little Eva, who sung the song first, was the babysitter for Carol King, who along with Gerry Goffin (King's husband). So this song you are using as an example, wasn't writing by the singer, but was written for the singer.
Nice example.
Look, Pop music is different then Rock music. Always has been. Pop music is made to please the most people possible, thus why it's called "Popular" music. The most money is to be made via pop music, so it's no surprise that the various Record mafiaa's dedicated research to formulas & lots of people writing tunes for singers/dancers. Probably will not change.
Rock music while mainstream, isn't the same sort of music as popular, doesn't usually have the same fans, and it does get the same sort of formula/lots of people writing shit for it. But unlike popular music, rock fans don't usually go for the canned rock music that labels try to pass, they prefer a better class of music.
But all this said, taste is subjective. While I don't care for Pop music of today, I don't mind some of it from the 80's. Granted I like my rock old though (50+) and my metal hard. (Metallica sold out when they cut their hair, just sayin.) But that isn't all I like. I generally like good music. And I find good music comes in all types, even country western. (and I can not stand country or western, or any combination within, but Patsy Cline fucking rocks.)
Changing the names to make something sound better has been a strat for decades, if not longer.
So why is this a surprise that the semiconductors are using it now to sell stuff.
Aren't there are other areas of science that a faster GPU benefits namely structural biology and the modeling proteins?
-- Jim
Your website could be better. Getting weekly feedback is a good starting point.
Benefits the Bitcoin Miner malware makers...
Except that all the really good music was written by the bands. Queen wrote their own shit. ZZ Top. Aerosmith. Scorpions (I don't like Scorpions personally, but yeah... okay, they're good). Sonata Arctica. Iron Maiden. Johann Sebastian Bach. Greenday. Lard.
Compare that to, uh. Bieber. Or Beyonce.
You do realize you are comparing rock/metal groups ('cept for Greenday) with pop music, right?
2 different types of music. Usually 2 different types of fans.
So I was excited to buy a PS4 until they announced no media server support. Same with XBone. I guess I'm just one of those guys who will stay with his PS3 for the forseeable future...
I know why they made that choice, but it doesn't service the customers who put their media library on a server instead of on disc.
Well, let's see how the hackers are this generation with getting the machines to run other code then official...
I'm surprised he was hired in the first place. He might be talented and an asset to any organization but he's also proven himself to be a liability. He will likely never be hired anywhere anybody has something to hide ever again.
And yet he was given a job.
You know the saying, if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide? Well, that applies to jobs he works at. If they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear.
If the NSA had nothing to hide, why do they fear what Snowden leaked? Remember, they first said he didn't have access to anything and didn't have anything important. Are they still saying that? No, they went to tell the other countries that will force economic sanctions on any country helping him. Which is a lie, because they haven't done shit to Russia.
If i was a honest company, Snowden is the sort of person I'd probably like working there.
That logic can be used to argue both sides of almost anything, from making kids eat their veggies to invading Iraq (if you convince yourself you'll be greeted as a liberator).
Ya, and you can use math to make it seem like anything is possible. What is your point?
Snowden is bad. He's the definition of traitor. If you support him, you're just an ignorant tool.
He didn't release documents describing the NSA spying on its own people. He's a traitor who released any and all documents he could get his hands on, just like Bradley Manning. The newspapers and reporters are the ones who zeroed in on the NSA spying on its own citizens and made sure you heard about it first. They actually looked for BAD things that were going on, and didn't just throw everything out there.
If Snowden only released documents about spying on Americans, then you'd have something to work with, but he did no such thing. He dumped it all, including operations information that is most certainly well within the NSAs purview. Spying on Merkel? Guess what, ITS THEIR JOB TO DO SO.
He's not a whistle blower, he's an attention whore. The reporters that went through these documents and found the information about spying on American citizens are doing the right thing. Dumping info about the NSA spying on other countries ... thats treason. If you didn't know the NSA was spying on other countries, your a moron, its their job to do just that. He never should have published ANY of that sort of shit.
Being a whistleblower is different than stealing a bunch of documents, regardless of what they say and publishing them for all to see.
Sorry you're such a fanboy of his, but he's a douche bag traitor. Deal with it.
How is that NSA job working for you? Good benefits? Kids don't respect you anymore? Your wife left you? Your dog ran away? Ya, that's what I thought.
"Snowden did transition from a whistle blower to a spy though"
No. He did not.
He was a whistleblower and remains a whistleblower.
He did. Initially the U.S. media were supportive of him as a whistleblower. Their owners and editors then had their briefing, and suddenly actions that were pro-american whistleblowing were anti-american spying.
So yes, he didn't change, but the media's portrayal of him did, and that's what's important.
Yes, the U.S. media, now there is a group that sticks up for the rights of the people over the government & corporations. And yes, I am being really fucking sarcastic when I say that. Who the fuck do you think the U.S. Media works for, and why the fuck do you think Snowden ignored them and went to the Guardian?
If the map says Taiwan (ROC) is a nation, that will offend mainland China (PRC). If the map says Taiwan is a province of PRC, that offends Taiwan.
Really, they're screwed either way.
At $work, we are mandated to call ROC a "region". That's as accurate as we can go without offending anyone.
Ya, too bad computers aren't able to be programmed to show a different thing based on the location, or maybe the language would clue it. But I guess that is too complicated for today's computers...
Oh yeah I'm sure that the pirates are enjoying the lovely single player campaign as we speak
Well, watching the webrip of Riddick right now, but will be playing BF4 in about 10 mins.
Anyone else wondering why the sourcecode was even able to be accessed? Seems like a stupid thing to have on a web server, or able to access from a web server.
That's like leaving a laptop sitting on a seat in car while you are out shopping/whatever.