Oh, sure. Terrorists are horrible people, hell-bent on violating the worst crimes of war possible. They are no stranger to detonating a nuclear bomb in the middle of any decently sized american city....
Dude we are talking real life here, not TV. No terrorist has ever set off a nuclear bomb in America. In fact, the only nuclear bombs to ever be used against any cities was dropped by America.
I'm so tired of using "terrorist" argument and then, when we give them what they want, they turn around and use new powers on own citizens or to oppress members of minor political parties.
The true terrorist is the USA Government and it's cronies.
I get that they have oil, but come on already. This sort of crap should simply not be tolerated by the west. We should not sell them arms or have diplomatic relations with these kinds of states. They abuse women, have a cave man's idea of a criminal justice system, are a theocracy and fund terrorism. What else do they need to do before we decide to stop tolerating their shit?
Why the fuck is up to us to do something about it? Saudi can take care of it's own shit, and make it's own laws. They want to be stupid, let them.
I view cops with suspicion now. The automatic trust is gone forever.
Dude, cops are people. People with power. What happens when people get power? they abuse it. Some greater then others, but they all abuse it in some way.
That is why you don't trust cops. Why you don't trust politicians, and why you never trust the people running your country. They aren't running it to make your life better, they are doing it to make their lives better.
... He asked where I lived, so I referred him to my drivers license address. That was a trick question. If I said anything but what it said on my license, that's a civil infraction here....
Bullshit. I never have my address on my license. The address on your license does NOT have to be your home address. I've had it be the main post office in seattle before. You think the DMV checks to make sure you are even using a correct address when they make them? Fuck no.
What you said is a trick question, but not for the reason you described. It's a trick question in case the ID is fake. They assume (wrongly, because I have no idea what the address is on my ID without looking) that you know the info on your ID.
And you don't do the small talk. You don't tell them what you do for a job, you do not tell them where you live. They are not your friend, they are not your buddy.
There's a reason these programs are kept secret (along with their budgets) from the general "civilian" government. It's because they're huge money pits. They're pork. Free money for security services contractors. It's not some boogeyman new world order shadow conspiracy for power.
It's a much, much, older and familiar monster. Greed.
I agree, but the other reason it was kept a secret because it's wrong, and they know it. They don't want the law makers knowing about it because either they will shut it down, or take it away.
Or the law makers will do what they have been doing before they knew about it, nothing.
What is a better way to show that the patent system is broken, and that software patents are really stupid but by pushing a bunch of really obvious stupid ones thru?
It probably costs less then they are paying for litigation with current software patent wars, and if they can show the system is broken and flawed, and that software patents are bogus, wouldn't it make things easier for them?
... Today, October 1, 2013, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, started the major part of its implementation. That is a "gift" to the people of the United States from the Democratic party....
Wasn't internet designed around the idea to route around damage? Places where spying on everybody and his sister is the norm certainly looks like something to be avoided. But then again, we don't want the terrorists to win. Right?
Terrorism won. The terrorist took on the Big USA, claimed they weren't the "good guys" that they claimed to be. Come a decade later, we got Snowden showing exactly how much of dicks the USA Government really is, and that the terrorist aren't the big threat, but that the USA Government is the big threat. The one causing TERROR in the world.
Well, at least the kids are learning something from their iPads, though it's not the lessons the schools intended.
Still a valuable lessons to be learned here. You give kids rules, much like adults and they are going to find away around it, and that kids are smarter then the people running the schools.
Seems like an obscure sensing mechanismI wonder how accurate it is...
Just detecting raw keypresses didn't produce a very accurate result, but switching to picking up pairs of keywords and then using a word dictionary did produce useful data extraction. Accuracies of around 80% were achieved, but the accuracy reduced with the number of keypresses. Word recognition only achieved a 46% accuracy, but this increased to 73% if second choice words were included. Clearly semantic analysis could push the accuracy up.
Gabe and Valve keep talking about innovation but it's now been nearly 3 years since they floated the piston box prototype and with this new announcement we'll be waiting for another prototype in spring 2014. Exactly how long does it take to build a special purpose PC? That is all this Steam Machine is after all, correct?
The last time I paid attention to what Valve had to say it was Gabe back in 2010 or so talking about how with the Steam platform they would be delivering small incremental updates to Half-Life 2 instead of the "lengthy" episodes or even longer Half-Life 3 box sequels. Sorry Gabe, but 2014 is around the corner meaning it's been 7 years since Half-Life 2 Episode 2. You want the industry to follow your company's lead with Steam and games on demand type development then please lead by example.
While I agree they are overdue for a Half-life 3, I think Valve is being smart about their new console. We aren't talking some giant mega world corporation with deep pockets funding a gaming console. We aren't talking a company that can easily get Nvidia or AMD to just out of the blue, after decades of linux users asking for better drivers, to get them to make some decent drivers. No, see Valve had to get the ground work done. They had to get linux working with Steam, which they did. They managed to get AMD on board with the drivers, which in turn now has got Nvidia trying to bust out decent drivers. They also had to see where the current gen of consoles were heading. It would be foolish to put out a underpowered Wii-U type of machine earlier, as Nintendo has shown us.
You might want everything right now, but good stuff takes time and Valve seems to be going about this smart.
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
Close. The Original Trilogy had Vaseline under the hover cars, but not much elsewhere. In other words: It was missing Saturation Filters and Lens Flares.
Ya, but didn't they add that when Lucas redid them during the 90's?
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and now they want to charge for them. Making them available via Bittorrent would be the moral choice.
They will be, give it a couple of days.
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Oh, sure. Terrorists are horrible people, hell-bent on violating the worst crimes of war possible. They are no stranger to detonating a nuclear bomb in the middle of any decently sized american city....
Dude we are talking real life here, not TV. No terrorist has ever set off a nuclear bomb in America. In fact, the only nuclear bombs to ever be used against any cities was dropped by America.
I'm so tired of using "terrorist" argument and then, when we give them what they want, they turn around and use new powers on own citizens or to oppress members of minor political parties.
The true terrorist is the USA Government and it's cronies.
I get that they have oil, but come on already. This sort of crap should simply not be tolerated by the west. We should not sell them arms or have diplomatic relations with these kinds of states. They abuse women, have a cave man's idea of a criminal justice system, are a theocracy and fund terrorism. What else do they need to do before we decide to stop tolerating their shit?
Why the fuck is up to us to do something about it? Saudi can take care of it's own shit, and make it's own laws. They want to be stupid, let them.
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I view cops with suspicion now. The automatic trust is gone forever.
Dude, cops are people. People with power. What happens when people get power? they abuse it. Some greater then others, but they all abuse it in some way.
That is why you don't trust cops. Why you don't trust politicians, and why you never trust the people running your country. They aren't running it to make your life better, they are doing it to make their lives better.
... He asked where I lived, so I referred him to my drivers license address. That was a trick question. If I said anything but what it said on my license, that's a civil infraction here....
Bullshit. I never have my address on my license. The address on your license does NOT have to be your home address. I've had it be the main post office in seattle before. You think the DMV checks to make sure you are even using a correct address when they make them? Fuck no.
What you said is a trick question, but not for the reason you described. It's a trick question in case the ID is fake. They assume (wrongly, because I have no idea what the address is on my ID without looking) that you know the info on your ID.
And you don't do the small talk. You don't tell them what you do for a job, you do not tell them where you live. They are not your friend, they are not your buddy.
"Do you know why I pulled you over?" is an attempt at getting you to admit guilt in the first interaction.
That's where Mad Magazines "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions" comes to play.
"You were bored?"
"You felt it was time to violate someones rights?"
"You wanted to ask directions to the nearest donut shop?"
Unfortunately, i don't drive so I never get to test out these great lines...
There's a reason these programs are kept secret (along with their budgets) from the general "civilian" government. It's because they're huge money pits. They're pork. Free money for security services contractors. It's not some boogeyman new world order shadow conspiracy for power.
It's a much, much, older and familiar monster. Greed.
I agree, but the other reason it was kept a secret because it's wrong, and they know it. They don't want the law makers knowing about it because either they will shut it down, or take it away.
Or the law makers will do what they have been doing before they knew about it, nothing.
What is a better way to show that the patent system is broken, and that software patents are really stupid but by pushing a bunch of really obvious stupid ones thru?
It probably costs less then they are paying for litigation with current software patent wars, and if they can show the system is broken and flawed, and that software patents are bogus, wouldn't it make things easier for them?
https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6725378/Complete_Original_Doctor_Who
https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/6715960/Doctor_Who_2005-2011_Complete
Going to need to find 2012-, but they are all there on TPB also.
Remember, if you like Doctor Who, support it in some way.
Speaking of Seattle, ...
yep, speaking of Seattle, it's legal to get stoned before you go enjoy those fine museums we have. =)
The article has no proof to back up that Patent Trolls are putting in patents since the Gov shut down. Bullshit article that landed on Slashdot.
... It's why America doesn't make anything anymore, and the greedy bastard 1% fuckers should all be lined up against a wall and executed.
Just to be sure, shouldn't we take out the top 5%?
... Today, October 1, 2013, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, started the major part of its implementation. That is a "gift" to the people of the United States from the Democratic party. ...
It's not a gift, it's them doing their job.
It's odd that when someone points out flaws in a system, they are considered to be whining.
Because the system doesn't want whiners, because they might turn into whistleblowers. And how can the system fuck us over if people know they are?
Wasn't internet designed around the idea to route around damage? Places where spying on everybody and his sister is the norm certainly looks like something to be avoided. But then again, we don't want the terrorists to win. Right?
Terrorism won. The terrorist took on the Big USA, claimed they weren't the "good guys" that they claimed to be. Come a decade later, we got Snowden showing exactly how much of dicks the USA Government really is, and that the terrorist aren't the big threat, but that the USA Government is the big threat. The one causing TERROR in the world.
This is news for nerds because of Twitter! Twitter is all technical and stuff, with the computers and the social media buzz.
Seriously, WTF? What's next? Baseball scores?
Dude, it's football season.
Well, at least the kids are learning something from their iPads, though it's not the lessons the schools intended.
Still a valuable lessons to be learned here. You give kids rules, much like adults and they are going to find away around it, and that kids are smarter then the people running the schools.
Seems like an obscure sensing mechanismI wonder how accurate it is...
Just detecting raw keypresses didn't produce a very accurate result, but switching to picking up pairs of keywords and then using a word dictionary did produce useful data extraction. Accuracies of around 80% were achieved, but the accuracy reduced with the number of keypresses. Word recognition only achieved a 46% accuracy, but this increased to 73% if second choice words were included. Clearly semantic analysis could push the accuracy up.
Gabe and Valve keep talking about innovation but it's now been nearly 3 years since they floated the piston box prototype and with this new announcement we'll be waiting for another prototype in spring 2014. Exactly how long does it take to build a special purpose PC? That is all this Steam Machine is after all, correct?
The last time I paid attention to what Valve had to say it was Gabe back in 2010 or so talking about how with the Steam platform they would be delivering small incremental updates to Half-Life 2 instead of the "lengthy" episodes or even longer Half-Life 3 box sequels. Sorry Gabe, but 2014 is around the corner meaning it's been 7 years since Half-Life 2 Episode 2. You want the industry to follow your company's lead with Steam and games on demand type development then please lead by example.
While I agree they are overdue for a Half-life 3, I think Valve is being smart about their new console. We aren't talking some giant mega world corporation with deep pockets funding a gaming console. We aren't talking a company that can easily get Nvidia or AMD to just out of the blue, after decades of linux users asking for better drivers, to get them to make some decent drivers. No, see Valve had to get the ground work done. They had to get linux working with Steam, which they did. They managed to get AMD on board with the drivers, which in turn now has got Nvidia trying to bust out decent drivers. They also had to see where the current gen of consoles were heading. It would be foolish to put out a underpowered Wii-U type of machine earlier, as Nintendo has shown us.
You might want everything right now, but good stuff takes time and Valve seems to be going about this smart.
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
Close. The Original Trilogy had Vaseline under the hover cars, but not much elsewhere. In other words: It was missing Saturation Filters and Lens Flares.
Ya, but didn't they add that when Lucas redid them during the 90's?
Researchers can be roughly divided into two types: creative and non creative.
And sadly, creative people are few and far between.
Mainly when people steal their work...
One thing about Martha, she isn't about to take any crap off anyone. I think these assholes tried to shake down the wrong woman.
Martha is hard core. She's been to prison and everything. She will probably shiv one or more of them.
They exist to help it's customers in times of need, yet it's a for profit business. Those 2 do NOT work together.
I thought FB was 18+ so minors shouldn't be on it anyways.