You are right. He would really need to use some sort of computer to be able to measure whether his Internet speed had changed by that amount. How unlikely is that?
Seriously, we can't know what he meant by noticing the speed change. It may just be that as a gamer, he keeps an eye on his ping times regularly and noticed the numbers change. Frankly, that is not the important part of the article so it isn't worth worrying about that quote.
Actually we can know what he meant, because he has stated it before.
Even if they did accidentally bring cholera in, it's the terrible state of sanitation in Haiti that has turned it into an epidemic. Haiti would have likely seen cholera even if the UN hadn't come in. Someone would have just brought it in later. And I dare say they help the outsiders have provided has far outweighed any harm they've done.
And yet for a century Haiti hasn't had a cholera problem...
You know, you are going to die someday, so maybe you should hurry the process and do it now. You know, since its going to happen one day anyways...
people in power abuse their power. Mainly if they aren't subject to any sort of scrutiny on how they do their job. History has shown this time and time again. And if you have trouble remembering history, the NSA is currently a prime example of power being abused because of lack of scrutiny.
Cops work for the people, they need to be completely accountable while on duty, and in this day and age, that include video surveillance.
To put it in terms the average americans could understand. It protects the children from Terrorist Pedophile Policemen.
I always thought games relying on Games for Windows Live was stupid, because it is unavoidable that Microsoft will abandon that like all products and services that they create, and then what will happen with all the games that use that? They will no longer work.
Then thank your god(s) for the pirate scene, preserving games for the long haul.
The way I see it, MS could write everybody on/. a $10 000 cheque and slashdotters would turn around and say it wasn't done right. Just cause it's MS.
You must be new, oh yes, I can see by your 2.6 Million UID that you are. Let me give you a clue. MS has been making products and dropping support for those products for quite awhile. See, MS had ADHD. They can't pay attention, so they miss the trends until they are already happening. Then they try to play catch up, but since they can't focus worth shit, they lose interest again.
You know how many times they have had a PC Gaming Initiative? About every 5 years. How long do they last? One set of games being released, if that. And even that is to promote something else. Halo & Shadowrun? Remember those? Had to have Vista to run them because they required Direct X 10? MS was pushing Vista & Direct X 10, telling peeps they were there for PC gaming. And yet those 2 games, with a small hack, could run just fine on XP because they didn't use DX 10, they used DX 9.
I'm not even going to into the features that MS always promises for new OS's that never make it. Or how they will focus to take over a market, then let it sit (Web Browsers is a good example of this. They fought tooth and nail to beat Netscape, then once they did, sat on IE6 for years without updates.
No, I don't like MS. They have a history of being twats and most of us know it.
We (the people) gave them a little power, and they grossly over stepped the bounds.
I don't think it is useful to exaggerate. We don't have any evidence (yet) of malicious intent - almost all of the stuff in this report was just sloppiness because nobody was there to keep them in line...
One thing I noticed is jobs rarely give you notice before they let you go. I guess if you are worried about references and that crap, but otherwise, screw them because they would have screwed you if the situation was reversed.
>> roughly half of current IBM cloud revenues are tied to hardware, in many cases systems used to run customers' private clouds or partner clouds.
Does this really surprise anyone here? Isn't that the whole point behind "private cloud" to get top management derps to check the "cloud" box without actually changing how the existing datacenter and applications are run?
Here's the deal. Whomever air Breaking Bad still made their money off it. Even though a shit ton of peeps downloaded it, they still had all the Cable/Dish subscribers that paid for AMC, plus AMC had commercials going (before, after, during?). When they release on it DVD & Bluray, they will still get money for it.
See, they think everyone that sees it needs to pay premium prices to watch it. And the truth is, they are making money, like they have always, otherwise they wouldn't be producing shows, AMC wouldn't be a channel, and of course, no one would pay for Cable/Dish TV.
Except, people pay for cable/dish TV, they pay extra for channels like AMC, HBO & Showtime. And people purchase DVD's & Blurays. The various Entertainment companies make money, make profits. Yet it's always about the pirating.
For the record, I haven't seen Breaking Bad. After the series is done, I'm planning on downloading it and watching it. Not buying it. Not paying Netflix. I will pirate the fucker and watch it. Does it matter? Fuck no, they made their money off of it. Sure, the actors might make a little cut off sales, but lets get real here. What about the grips? The makeup people? The lighting people? They got paid. They don't get anymore money. They got paid less then the actors, but had a very important job. If we are going to be fair here, which is what the entertainment industry is crying about when it comes to piracy, then they need to be getting a piece of the pie also.
This is why people that make TV shows do NOT deserve anything beyond the original airing.
I know that the Slashdot editors get a lot of stick for apparently being asleep at the wheel, but taking the time to add the original source article and not just the blog provided in the original submission is very welcome.
It seems awful to me. The writing is bad. The characters are bad. The plots are bad. The props/special effects are bad.
Is it something we Ironically like because its so bad or does it have good aspects I've over looked?
Don't get me wrong. I love science fiction. But this seems like garbage.
Anyone have an idea as to what I'm missing here?
Those sort of comments made me do the beating up in High School. "Talk shit about my Doctor will you?" *Punch in the eye* "EXTERMINATE!" *kick* "EXTERMINATE!" *kick*
But seriously, most of what you said is what makes Doctor Who so charming. At least old Doctor Who. But they used to do 3 hour story arcs, now it's a 45 min story.
Fifteen years ago, I'd have been all for causing a disruption. Exercising my self-evident liberties and thwarting The Man, when he came down on me for it.
Now, I have a fucked up back from a car crash, a fucked up knee from wrestling, a mortgage, people depending on me, a professional career, and neighbors. The amount of ways they could absolutely obliterate my life at their slightest whim are uncountable. As much as I'm all about people doing something and not just playing "Reddit-pretend-rebel/protestor", we are beyond the time of, say, the 90s -- where civil disobedience and voicing your dissent or even just being a vocal weirdo just got you either a knock on the door or a two hour trip into and out of your local lockup. We're in a time where you become an instant "child molester" or you just disappear or your finances go all permanently wonky, or you get "investigated" and now your neighbors and employer and coworkers all wonder what you've been up to that has raised the interest of The Man.
^^^ This is why America is so fucked up. "I got a good life, I don't want to ruin it." "It's someone else's problem" "I'm cool when they come for my neighbors as long as they leave me alone."
Don't forget to download the US Army publication (available many places online, in various formats) : "TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook". I was issued this TM (Technical Manual) when I was in the US Army in 1977. Instant science geek Massive Woody! The actual printed manual even had many blank pages, with a note at the beginning of the book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each page of the book weighed one gram!
After the intro of the 'MacGyver' TV series, it became 'the MacGyver Bible' by the troops.
I highly recommend the book for the potentially useful info, and the entertainment value.
DISCLAIMER: Most of the recipes/procedures are dangerous and risky! Keep in mind the context of this manual. Alarmingly, the context is for a would be terrorist, guerrilla fighter, insurgent, etc.....go figure...
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You are right. He would really need to use some sort of computer to be able to measure whether his Internet speed had changed by that amount. How unlikely is that?
Seriously, we can't know what he meant by noticing the speed change. It may just be that as a gamer, he keeps an eye on his ping times regularly and noticed the numbers change. Frankly, that is not the important part of the article so it isn't worth worrying about that quote.
Actually we can know what he meant, because he has stated it before.
https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcoms-gaming-lag-hints-spying-121004/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10838484
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/06/1723231/kim-dotcom-apparently-spied-on-for-longer-than-admitted
Even if they did accidentally bring cholera in, it's the terrible state of sanitation in Haiti that has turned it into an epidemic. Haiti would have likely seen cholera even if the UN hadn't come in. Someone would have just brought it in later. And I dare say they help the outsiders have provided has far outweighed any harm they've done.
And yet for a century Haiti hasn't had a cholera problem...
You know, you are going to die someday, so maybe you should hurry the process and do it now. You know, since its going to happen one day anyways...
people in power abuse their power. Mainly if they aren't subject to any sort of scrutiny on how they do their job. History has shown this time and time again. And if you have trouble remembering history, the NSA is currently a prime example of power being abused because of lack of scrutiny.
Cops work for the people, they need to be completely accountable while on duty, and in this day and age, that include video surveillance.
To put it in terms the average americans could understand. It protects the children from Terrorist Pedophile Policemen.
But I can't figure out which of the two dozen sites needs to be allowed in NoScript to make the video work.
Does anyone else know?
Vimecdn.com
I always thought games relying on Games for Windows Live was stupid, because it is unavoidable that Microsoft will abandon that like all products and services that they create, and then what will happen with all the games that use that? They will no longer work.
Then thank your god(s) for the pirate scene, preserving games for the long haul.
The way I see it, MS could write everybody on /. a $10 000 cheque and slashdotters would turn around and say it wasn't done right. Just cause it's MS.
You must be new, oh yes, I can see by your 2.6 Million UID that you are. Let me give you a clue. MS has been making products and dropping support for those products for quite awhile. See, MS had ADHD. They can't pay attention, so they miss the trends until they are already happening. Then they try to play catch up, but since they can't focus worth shit, they lose interest again.
You know how many times they have had a PC Gaming Initiative? About every 5 years. How long do they last? One set of games being released, if that. And even that is to promote something else. Halo & Shadowrun? Remember those? Had to have Vista to run them because they required Direct X 10? MS was pushing Vista & Direct X 10, telling peeps they were there for PC gaming. And yet those 2 games, with a small hack, could run just fine on XP because they didn't use DX 10, they used DX 9.
I'm not even going to into the features that MS always promises for new OS's that never make it. Or how they will focus to take over a market, then let it sit (Web Browsers is a good example of this. They fought tooth and nail to beat Netscape, then once they did, sat on IE6 for years without updates.
No, I don't like MS. They have a history of being twats and most of us know it.
Broke the rules? Overstepped its legal authority?
Is that the euphemism we're using now for "broke the law"?
When we use the term "Friendly Fire" to explain firing on your own troops, ya, nice sounding buzzwords is all the government is really good for.
Anyone else reminded of the Tuttle/Buttle debacle in Brazil?
Brazil is a must watch.
We (the people) gave them a little power, and they grossly over stepped the bounds.
I don't think it is useful to exaggerate. We don't have any evidence (yet) of malicious intent - almost all of the stuff in this report was just sloppiness because nobody was there to keep them in line...
On the 7th, supposed in 10 days (tomorrow, at least the 17th is tomorrow in Seattle), Snowden has 15k docs that are to be released. Maybe the solid proof you are seeking is in that? http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/08/07/1633256/snowden-gave-15000-documents-to-glenn-greenwald-obama-cancels-russia-summit
Maybe the wood worms just spread out and find new wood to eat on an annual cycle, or are just really slow to find new wood.
Where would this wood come from? The tropical rainforests of Antarctica?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Land
And when exactly did Microsoft do this?
...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4094597&cid=44581629
Read my comment, maybe you'll understand why this is happening.
I actually own a Windows phone, and it sucks that Google's acting like jerks. But really, what goes around, comes around.
Yes, MS has never used it's on secret API's in it's own OS, while leaving less efficient ones for everyone else to use. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/18/microsoft-secret-api-mobile/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Copyright_enforcement
Or like MS isn't suing Google various ways. https://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=10e5a3add6d6d99c&q=microsoft+suing+google&safe=off (too many different ones to list)
Or that MS CEO said they would kill google http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-5846243.html
So yes, Google are acting like the jerks here. (yes, this is sarcasm)
Who uses a Windows phone, anyway? ...
The Ballmer & Gates Families do.
One thing I noticed is jobs rarely give you notice before they let you go. I guess if you are worried about references and that crap, but otherwise, screw them because they would have screwed you if the situation was reversed.
>> roughly half of current IBM cloud revenues are tied to hardware, in many cases systems used to run customers' private clouds or partner clouds.
Does this really surprise anyone here? Isn't that the whole point behind "private cloud" to get top management derps to check the "cloud" box without actually changing how the existing datacenter and applications are run?
I miss the day when clouds were called servers...
Here's the deal. Whomever air Breaking Bad still made their money off it. Even though a shit ton of peeps downloaded it, they still had all the Cable/Dish subscribers that paid for AMC, plus AMC had commercials going (before, after, during?). When they release on it DVD & Bluray, they will still get money for it.
See, they think everyone that sees it needs to pay premium prices to watch it. And the truth is, they are making money, like they have always, otherwise they wouldn't be producing shows, AMC wouldn't be a channel, and of course, no one would pay for Cable/Dish TV.
Except, people pay for cable/dish TV, they pay extra for channels like AMC, HBO & Showtime. And people purchase DVD's & Blurays. The various Entertainment companies make money, make profits. Yet it's always about the pirating.
For the record, I haven't seen Breaking Bad. After the series is done, I'm planning on downloading it and watching it. Not buying it. Not paying Netflix. I will pirate the fucker and watch it. Does it matter? Fuck no, they made their money off of it. Sure, the actors might make a little cut off sales, but lets get real here. What about the grips? The makeup people? The lighting people? They got paid. They don't get anymore money. They got paid less then the actors, but had a very important job. If we are going to be fair here, which is what the entertainment industry is crying about when it comes to piracy, then they need to be getting a piece of the pie also.
This is why people that make TV shows do NOT deserve anything beyond the original airing.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act treats both "unauthorized access" and "exceeding authorized access" as essentially equivalent. ...
Isn't that what the NSA has done to us?
I know that the Slashdot editors get a lot of stick for apparently being asleep at the wheel, but taking the time to add the original source article and not just the blog provided in the original submission is very welcome.
And not get kickbacks from the bloggers?
if you spread peanut butter on the genitals, they dogs will get more interested quicker.
Dude, Love Steve Albini. Big Black is one my favorite bands of all time. =)
It seems awful to me. The writing is bad. The characters are bad. The plots are bad. The props/special effects are bad.
Is it something we Ironically like because its so bad or does it have good aspects I've over looked?
Don't get me wrong. I love science fiction. But this seems like garbage.
Anyone have an idea as to what I'm missing here?
Those sort of comments made me do the beating up in High School. "Talk shit about my Doctor will you?" *Punch in the eye* "EXTERMINATE!" *kick* "EXTERMINATE!" *kick*
But seriously, most of what you said is what makes Doctor Who so charming. At least old Doctor Who. But they used to do 3 hour story arcs, now it's a 45 min story.
Fifteen years ago, I'd have been all for causing a disruption. Exercising my self-evident liberties and thwarting The Man, when he came down on me for it.
Now, I have a fucked up back from a car crash, a fucked up knee from wrestling, a mortgage, people depending on me, a professional career, and neighbors. The amount of ways they could absolutely obliterate my life at their slightest whim are uncountable. As much as I'm all about people doing something and not just playing "Reddit-pretend-rebel/protestor", we are beyond the time of, say, the 90s -- where civil disobedience and voicing your dissent or even just being a vocal weirdo just got you either a knock on the door or a two hour trip into and out of your local lockup. We're in a time where you become an instant "child molester" or you just disappear or your finances go all permanently wonky, or you get "investigated" and now your neighbors and employer and coworkers all wonder what you've been up to that has raised the interest of The Man.
^^^ This is why America is so fucked up. "I got a good life, I don't want to ruin it." "It's someone else's problem" "I'm cool when they come for my neighbors as long as they leave me alone."
Don't forget to download the US Army publication (available many places online, in various formats) :
"TM 31-210: Improvised Munitions Handbook".
I was issued this TM (Technical Manual) when I was in the US Army in 1977. Instant science geek Massive Woody! The actual printed manual even had many blank pages, with a note at the beginning of the book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each page of the book weighed one gram!
After the intro of the 'MacGyver' TV series, it became 'the MacGyver Bible' by the troops.
I highly recommend the book for the potentially useful info, and the entertainment value.
DISCLAIMER:
Most of the recipes/procedures are dangerous and risky!
Keep in mind the context of this manual. Alarmingly, the context is for a would be terrorist, guerrilla fighter, insurgent, etc.....go figure...
https://archive.org/details/milmanual-tm-31-210-improvised-munitions-handbook
Not likely given China's propensity towards spying on everyone.
Did you say that with a straight face?
he forgot the group that lives in Mom's basement.
I mean, if you are going to start throwing out insults, you got to have mom's basement in there.
Oh ya, and you also forgot the SKY is falling.