The hyper political correctness gets old after a while.
Actually, it sounds like your reading comprehension skills could use a tune-up. Taco's editorialization is pretty straightforward:
Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner,
The use of quotes around "sport" implies that he does not believe gymnastics are an actual sport. Taco's trying to be condescending.
but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon twirling thing.
Labeling the whole of gymastics with as nothing but "ribbon twirling thing" is further condescension. So no, it's not "hyper political correctness"; it's a response to condescending remarks. How is someone responding to a condescending remark "hyper political correctness"?
If Linux could access the GPU, then games could be written for PS3 Linux and shipped on a DVD contain a Linux kernel and bootloader without paying Sony anything
Just take a look at the sheer size of the linux PC-gaming library for an example of what Sony has to fear.
In deed this strikes me as the climatological equivalent to the following song: I know an old lady who swallowed a cow, I wonder how she swallowed a cow?! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed the fly, I guess she'll die.
I dunno what the hell you're trying to babble about. The proper reference for/. readers goes like this:
Skinner: Ahh, but as it turns out the lizards were a godsend since they've eaten all the pigeons.
Lisa: Isn't that a little short-sighted? What happens when we're up to our ears with lizards?
Skinner: Ah, well we shall simply release wave after wave of Chinese needlesnakes.
Lisa: Then what about the snakes?
Skinner: We simply import gorillas who will eat all the snakes.
Lisa: Well what happens when we're up to our ears in gorillas?!
Skinner: Ah that's the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
"Why on earth would you sit and play MP3s on a productionserver as administrator? Sounds possibly the most retarded thing to do I can possible imagine."
This is your reply? On an article about running a Server OS as a "Workstation"?
Firefox does the same, just displays it a bit differently, and IE doesn't seem to do it at all, just the normal auto-complete type thing.
So, i'll presume, and simply say "stop using IE"
And that's why uneducated presumptions should be kept to oneself. He was referring to Firefox 2, as Firefox 3 added "the Awesomebar" in question.
Methinks your sphincter muscles are cutting off the circulation to your head.
Then I have a decision... but I also have yet to have this happen. I have found a pretty high correlation between sites with terrible ads and sites with completely idiotic (in my view, at least) content.
If I go there, and find they do, I don't come back. How is that hard to understand?
So when you come across a site that has content that you enjoy, but also contains annoying ads, simply blocking the ads and enjoying the content doesn't make sense for you.
That's quite a minority opinion, and yet you don't understand why people don't agree with you?
Overly intrusive ads... well, I just don't visit those sites any more. Somehow, my life hasn't really become worse without sites that throw pop-ups everywhere.
And I bet that works out really well if you visit a site you've never been to before, and thus don't know if it has intrusive ads. You're proudly riding on the stupidest looking high horse I've ever seen.
When the sky clouds over, are you going to sit in your own filth in the dark
If only we had a way to store energy and use it later when the sky "clouds over". It's a shame no one ever invented anything like that, and now we're all stuck in your world, contemplating the interior of our anuses.
Granted, the defendant has some creepy issues, but...
2) The images were manufactured. They included real faces of his daughters and kids on his soccer team that he coached.
How in your mind did cutting and pasting meet the definition of "manufacturing"?
These were just as damaging as any other "child porn" you can think of.
Err...damaging to who, exactly? Did he print them out and start giving people really bad papercuts?
My cousin was a beautiful young woman until she developed lupus... she went from somewhere around 120 pounds to, well, I'm not going to speculate
So in your own words, your cousin is no longer "beautiful" to you, but yet:
I get so upset at the looks people give us. People look at her like she just killed and ate their favorite pet, then they look at me with a slightly different look of disgust.
I agree that this PC crap has gone waaaay to far. From black people being offended by every reference to the term "slave" to Christians being offended that anyone would choose a homosexual lifestyle over a hetero one, we ALL need to stop being so freakin' sensitive!
Are you actually criticizing people for being sensitive to events that are only three generations removed from them? My great-grandmother was still alive when I was born (and for ten years after): three generations is within familial reach. Any African-American born in the middle-20th Century was only three generations removed from the abolishment of slavery, and you can't respect that perhaps some of those people are sensitive to the circumstances of their world?
Do we need to discuss that it took another 100 years from the abolishment of slavery for the civil rights movement to actually ratify African-Americans as 5/5 human that could sit, drink, and learn as they want?
Do we need to discuss that even 40 years out from the civil rights movement, racism is still a factor in our politics?
Your perspective is astonishingly lacking.
doesn't mean that an IT professional is inept at locking down systems without impacting a firm's ability to do business.
How hard is it to get any real work done on super locked done system with out a lot of dead time waiting for IT to unlock what you need to get your job done?
So kindly go fuck yourself with your condescending attitude.
it makes perfect sense that people traveling with their laptop only bring "unimportant" information with them.
What should a road-warrior expect, access to their data while they travel? Hogwash!
There is no reason for them to ahve information that important on their laptop.
It should be secured on the servers and accessed when needed.
You work in a "large, multi-national development shop", and none of the other developers have had need for an OS X or linux installation. Doesn't that say something about *you*?
+ Too hard for us to administer (yes your highness)
Or they've developed the means to administer systems with consistency and efficiency, and adding in a rogue platform for a would-be poweruser doesn't make sense.
+ We can't tell if you're running unlicensed software on that computer (why don't you just like, ask me?)
The same reason that the IRS doesn't just like, ask you if you've been cheating on your tax returns.
It is sad that there are people who call themself a Christian, yet cling to the heresy of Biblical Literalism.
God forbid (cough) that the creator of the universe be capable of writing down The Book of The Law in a form that the "perfectly created" human brain could understand without having to play the role of interpretor.
The solution to the over-religious farmer problem is to focus on enabling voters. Designating election day as a national holiday is an obvious and easy start, but even then, poorer counties seem to always encounter longer lines of people wanting, yet not getting to vote.
If the progressives could build a movement around enabling voters, they would certainly gain on the number of voters controlled by the religious right.
There isn't any reason to go crying over spilled milk,
Rigged elections are "spilled milk"?
Subverting the people's will is "spilled milk"?
The results of an election affect our nation's policies, as well as the lives of our civilians and military members for years.
If democracy has been subverted, it needs to be rectified immediately, and not delayed until the next election cycle.
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Actually, it sounds like your reading comprehension skills could use a tune-up. Taco's editorialization is pretty straightforward:
Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner,
The use of quotes around "sport" implies that he does not believe gymnastics are an actual sport. Taco's trying to be condescending.
but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon twirling thing.
Labeling the whole of gymastics with as nothing but "ribbon twirling thing" is further condescension. So no, it's not "hyper political correctness"; it's a response to condescending remarks. How is someone responding to a condescending remark "hyper political correctness"?
Just take a look at the sheer size of the linux PC-gaming library for an example of what Sony has to fear.
Too bad for you that I'm seven years out of college, and doing just fine.
Would you like to try again with a response, or do you need to take your high horse out to graze?
Sounds like you could take some lessons on not collecting data that's none of your fucking business.
I dunno what the hell you're trying to babble about. The proper reference for /. readers goes like this:
Skinner: Ahh, but as it turns out the lizards were a godsend since they've eaten all the pigeons.
Lisa: Isn't that a little short-sighted? What happens when we're up to our ears with lizards?
Skinner: Ah, well we shall simply release wave after wave of Chinese needlesnakes.
Lisa: Then what about the snakes?
Skinner: We simply import gorillas who will eat all the snakes.
Lisa: Well what happens when we're up to our ears in gorillas?!
Skinner: Ah that's the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
Wow, you must be a hoot at parties.
You've gotta admit though, that game sounds awesome.
This is your reply? On an article about running a Server OS as a "Workstation"?
So, i'll presume, and simply say "stop using IE"
And that's why uneducated presumptions should be kept to oneself. He was referring to Firefox 2, as Firefox 3 added "the Awesomebar" in question.
Methinks your sphincter muscles are cutting off the circulation to your head.
He says, as he visits slashdot...
So when you come across a site that has content that you enjoy, but also contains annoying ads, simply blocking the ads and enjoying the content doesn't make sense for you.
That's quite a minority opinion, and yet you don't understand why people don't agree with you?
And I bet that works out really well if you visit a site you've never been to before, and thus don't know if it has intrusive ads. You're proudly riding on the stupidest looking high horse I've ever seen.
But at the end of the day, you're still a dude who owns anime porn. FAIL.
If only we had a way to store energy and use it later when the sky "clouds over". It's a shame no one ever invented anything like that, and now we're all stuck in your world, contemplating the interior of our anuses.
2) The images were manufactured. They included real faces of his daughters and kids on his soccer team that he coached.
How in your mind did cutting and pasting meet the definition of "manufacturing"? These were just as damaging as any other "child porn" you can think of.
Err...damaging to who, exactly? Did he print them out and start giving people really bad papercuts?
If you're able to make Win95 more secure than Win2K+.
19 guys that weren't from Iraq?
Nice math.
So in your own words, your cousin is no longer "beautiful" to you, but yet:
I get so upset at the looks people give us. People look at her like she just killed and ate their favorite pet, then they look at me with a slightly different look of disgust.
How are you any better?
Are you actually criticizing people for being sensitive to events that are only three generations removed from them? My great-grandmother was still alive when I was born (and for ten years after): three generations is within familial reach. Any African-American born in the middle-20th Century was only three generations removed from the abolishment of slavery, and you can't respect that perhaps some of those people are sensitive to the circumstances of their world?
Do we need to discuss that it took another 100 years from the abolishment of slavery for the civil rights movement to actually ratify African-Americans as 5/5 human that could sit, drink, and learn as they want?
Do we need to discuss that even 40 years out from the civil rights movement, racism is still a factor in our politics?
Your perspective is astonishingly lacking.
How hard is it to get any real work done on super locked done system with out a lot of dead time waiting for IT to unlock what you need to get your job done?
So kindly go fuck yourself with your condescending attitude.
it makes perfect sense that people traveling with their laptop only bring "unimportant" information with them. What should a road-warrior expect, access to their data while they travel? Hogwash! There is no reason for them to ahve information that important on their laptop. It should be secured on the servers and accessed when needed.
+ Too hard for us to administer (yes your highness)
Or they've developed the means to administer systems with consistency and efficiency, and adding in a rogue platform for a would-be poweruser doesn't make sense.
+ We can't tell if you're running unlicensed software on that computer (why don't you just like, ask me?)
The same reason that the IRS doesn't just like, ask you if you've been cheating on your tax returns.
God forbid (cough) that the creator of the universe be capable of writing down The Book of The Law in a form that the "perfectly created" human brain could understand without having to play the role of interpretor.
The solution to the over-religious farmer problem is to focus on enabling voters. Designating election day as a national holiday is an obvious and easy start, but even then, poorer counties seem to always encounter longer lines of people wanting, yet not getting to vote. If the progressives could build a movement around enabling voters, they would certainly gain on the number of voters controlled by the religious right.
Rigged elections are "spilled milk"?
Subverting the people's will is "spilled milk"?
The results of an election affect our nation's policies, as well as the lives of our civilians and military members for years.
If democracy has been subverted, it needs to be rectified immediately, and not delayed until the next election cycle.