You forgot to say where you live, but if you need weapons I'm guessing you're in Somalia or some other 3rd world country filled with aggressive lunatics.
> There's very little interest and profitability in making good or even passable sci-fi.
I wish there was some scifi-loving billionare who would take a risk and buy the rights to everything by Alastair Reynolds and/or John Birmingham and cough up the money for the best scriptwriters, the best director, good actors, massive marketing etc. Without Warning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Warning_(novel)) the movie, or Pushing Ice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Ice) the movie could not possibly fail if it was done right.
Pray to what god? None of the arab gods (allah, jehova etc) have much influence in Asia, and certainly no power at all outside the coast of Japan. Or are you talking about the Sun Godess? I'm sure the emperor (being her descendant and all) is already on it.
So what if he was? Being someone's nephew isn't illegal (at least I don't THINK it's illegal in the US, yet. IANAUSL). Hitlers nephew never did anybody any harm (...or, well, except Adolf Hitler, who he tried to blackmail).
What nonsense. The author basically says that the "hackers" are using the internet to communicate. And makes silly claims like "While ["hacker"] forums are picked up by search engines".... I've never come accross a CC forum that doesn't disallow searchengines from indexing the real stuff in robots.txt.
securityweek.com - yet another site with writers who don't know their subject.
Right. And Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia are liberal democrats? Ever heard of the Strasser brothers and what happened to them? Please explain how the nazis where socialist in any way after that.
How would guns solve anything, and what does Nicolae Ceausescu (former dictator of Romania) have to do with the Czech Republic? The Czechoslovakian "revolution" was peaceful - civilized people don't need guns to overthrow their government.
Interesting. It's also possible that injecting people with heroin helps them stay away from drugs. And may be beating children with baseball bats gives them a wonderful childhood. Who knows?
"make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web". Right.
Most scandinavian countries probably reached this goal at least 5 years ago. The last person I knew who didn't have a computer (or internet connection) was my great-great grandmother, who died in 1997. My grandmother got her computer (winpc) and some kind of Windows 95 certification (that included IE) around 1996... And younger people are not less technical.
Sure, you can probably find some hermit out in the forests of northern Sweden who don't have any internet connection (or electricity), but I don't think that really counts.
In other words, great initiative, but there's no need to make up silly claims like that.
What assembler code did you do for the Vic 20 that was so difficult? I don't have much experience of pure 6502-coding myself, but I've done plenty of 6510-coding on the C64 and don't find it very painful at all.
Source? Everybody "knows" this is the case in certain arabic countries, but the PRC? Never seen that claim before (about today's PRC government I mean, it's well known fact that Mao had a lot of girls.... available.)
> Did you even watch the beginning of the video where the palm mute pad goes up and down, demonstrating palm muting?
No, missed it. If it's there, it's not working.
> Yngwie? Nah. Yngwie is good, but there are tons of kids nowdays that can rip him a new one. I know of a blind Japanese kid that would kick his ass left and right.
The videos doesn't show any superhuman speed. I (a half-decent guitarist) can play metallica songs faster, and a lot better/cleaner (the robot doesn't seem to be able to mute the stings for example).
Wake me up when the build a robot that can compete with Yngwie Malmsteen.
free6.com is/was a Swedish site, why would they give any federationalists from Mexico, USA, Argentina or some other foreign country anything at all? If they like to keep their site free of child porn, fine, that's a good thing. But isn't that something that should be done by a) their abuse administrator and/or b) the police in their own country?
So many people, especially the slashdot crowd, are cheering on Anonymous and other parties who are DDOSing
Really? I've been reading most (probably all) wikileaks stories on slashdot since this whole mess started, and I got the impression that the vast majority of the slashdotters agree this is a stupid way to "support" wikileaks.
The Caps Lock key is an arcane relic of the ancient IBM keyboards
"ancient" IBM keyboards (like the IBM 1391411 I'm typing this on) are about the only ones that doesn't have any "problem" with capslock (hitting capslock by accident), since it's clearly separated from the "a"-key and gives you plenty of feedback when hitting it (sound + feeling).
Of course, not having caps-lock might stop idiots from shouting, but they'll just express themselves in some other annoying way.
When I lived in Ireland and they switched to the Euro, I took all my Irish Puts, put them in two glass jars and buried them next to a church. My coins might still be there in a few hundred years when I hope some lucky person finds them, but at the moment it looks like the Irish banks could be gone.
Weird kid? When I was in school, EVERYBODY wanted a metal detector. Nobody owned one though (partly because they were very expensive back then, partly because of legal reasons), but I imagine that if somebody did, he would have been considered the coolest kid in school.
I finally got my first metal detector about 5 years ago, and at least here (Sweden) it's not considered nerdy - when I go metal detecting on the beach I get lots of nice curious girls coming up to ask questions and try it. Seriously.
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You forgot to say where you live, but if you need weapons I'm guessing you're in Somalia or some other 3rd world country filled with aggressive lunatics.
> There's very little interest and profitability in making good or even passable sci-fi.
I wish there was some scifi-loving billionare who would take a risk and buy the rights to everything by Alastair Reynolds and/or John Birmingham and cough up the money for the best scriptwriters, the best director, good actors, massive marketing etc. Without Warning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_Warning_(novel)) the movie, or Pushing Ice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Ice) the movie could not possibly fail if it was done right.
Pray to what god? None of the arab gods (allah, jehova etc) have much influence in Asia, and certainly no power at all outside the coast of Japan. Or are you talking about the Sun Godess? I'm sure the emperor (being her descendant and all) is already on it.
> Maybe he's Ahmadinejad's nephew or something.
So what if he was? Being someone's nephew isn't illegal (at least I don't THINK it's illegal in the US, yet. IANAUSL). Hitlers nephew never did anybody any harm (...or, well, except Adolf Hitler, who he tried to blackmail).
What nonsense. The author basically says that the "hackers" are using the internet to communicate. And makes silly claims like "While ["hacker"] forums are picked up by search engines".... I've never come accross a CC forum that doesn't disallow searchengines from indexing the real stuff in robots.txt.
securityweek.com - yet another site with writers who don't know their subject.
And the funny thing is that the US is losing all those wars. Perhaps it's time to beg for a ceasefire?
Right. And Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia are liberal democrats? Ever heard of the Strasser brothers and what happened to them? Please explain how the nazis where socialist in any way after that.
How would guns solve anything, and what does Nicolae Ceausescu (former dictator of Romania) have to do with the Czech Republic? The Czechoslovakian "revolution" was peaceful - civilized people don't need guns to overthrow their government.
Warez were called warez long before there were any kind of search-engine to search for warez with.
Egypt is not a monarchy, it's a normal 20th century dictatorship ruled by a president.
From TFA:
"may be"
"possible"
Interesting. It's also possible that injecting people with heroin helps them stay away from drugs. And may be beating children with baseball bats gives them a wonderful childhood. Who knows?
"make the UK the first nation in the world where everyone can use the web". Right.
Most scandinavian countries probably reached this goal at least 5 years ago. The last person I knew who didn't have a computer (or internet connection) was my great-great grandmother, who died in 1997. My grandmother got her computer (winpc) and some kind of Windows 95 certification (that included IE) around 1996... And younger people are not less technical.
Sure, you can probably find some hermit out in the forests of northern Sweden who don't have any internet connection (or electricity), but I don't think that really counts.
In other words, great initiative, but there's no need to make up silly claims like that.
What assembler code did you do for the Vic 20 that was so difficult? I don't have much experience of pure 6502-coding myself, but I've done plenty of 6510-coding on the C64 and don't find it very painful at all.
Links, please!
Source? Everybody "knows" this is the case in certain arabic countries, but the PRC? Never seen that claim before (about today's PRC government I mean, it's well known fact that Mao had a lot of girls.... available.)
> Did you even watch the beginning of the video where the palm mute pad goes up and down, demonstrating palm muting?
No, missed it. If it's there, it's not working.
> Yngwie? Nah. Yngwie is good, but there are tons of kids nowdays that can rip him a new one. I know of a blind Japanese kid that would kick his ass left and right.
Infidel. And you misspelled "God".
The videos doesn't show any superhuman speed. I (a half-decent guitarist) can play metallica songs faster, and a lot better/cleaner (the robot doesn't seem to be able to mute the stings for example).
Wake me up when the build a robot that can compete with Yngwie Malmsteen.
> In my experience most people misidentify pedestrian phenomena and call it a UFO.
Uh, what? So they see something they can identify, but somehow gets confused and think it's something they can't identify?
Funniest thing I've read since I don't know when. Mod parent up!
free6.com is/was a Swedish site, why would they give any federationalists from Mexico, USA, Argentina or some other foreign country anything at all? If they like to keep their site free of child porn, fine, that's a good thing. But isn't that something that should be done by a) their abuse administrator and/or b) the police in their own country?
So many people, especially the slashdot crowd, are cheering on Anonymous and other parties who are DDOSing
Really? I've been reading most (probably all) wikileaks stories on slashdot since this whole mess started, and I got the impression that the vast majority of the slashdotters agree this is a stupid way to "support" wikileaks.
The Caps Lock key is an arcane relic of the ancient IBM keyboards
"ancient" IBM keyboards (like the IBM 1391411 I'm typing this on) are about the only ones that doesn't have any "problem" with capslock (hitting capslock by accident), since it's clearly separated from the "a"-key and gives you plenty of feedback when hitting it (sound + feeling).
Of course, not having caps-lock might stop idiots from shouting, but they'll just express themselves in some other annoying way.
Safest, eh?
When I lived in Ireland and they switched to the Euro, I took all my Irish Puts, put them in two glass jars and buried them next to a church. My coins might still be there in a few hundred years when I hope some lucky person finds them, but at the moment it looks like the Irish banks could be gone.
How does price/performance compare to a toaster running NetBSD?
Weird kid? When I was in school, EVERYBODY wanted a metal detector. Nobody owned one though (partly because they were very expensive back then, partly because of legal reasons), but I imagine that if somebody did, he would have been considered the coolest kid in school.
I finally got my first metal detector about 5 years ago, and at least here (Sweden) it's not considered nerdy - when I go metal detecting on the beach I get lots of nice curious girls coming up to ask questions and try it. Seriously.
What's that word, woosh? I'm pretty damn sure he was joking.